Todd Berry Quotes

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

There`s people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it`s garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job.

I think I probably wasn`t as strong as I thought I was, but I never claimed I could do an hour and a half, because I just knew I couldn`t.

I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.

I mean, I`ve always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that.

I wasn`t as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

People don`t understand that that`s really what it is. They`re looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.

Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It`s a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons.

But I generally just work things out on stage, because you`re just going to say things up there differently than you would type them.

We put an album out, and we were fairly popular in Florida, and I had a couple of other bands in college. But I was never terribly skilled.

I had been on stage a little bit with bands, and I had had a few little stage experiences in college, but I wasn`t seasoned on stage by any stretch.

I mean, I`ve had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I`ve never even thought about, and they`re right.

I was in a band at the time, and I wanted to do that. I guess it took me some time to figure out that I was a better comedian than I was a drummer.

I`d rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place.

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.

Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself.

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don`t think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage.

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all.

If I`m at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me.

But usually I just spit it out there and it comes out in a way that you`ve never said it before and you`re closer to having it finished or whatever.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy`s sake.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I`m too classy to bring that up.

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.

I do not like sports. Unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

I don`t feel I`m even worthy of a normal amount of value.