Todd Barry's Quotes

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

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.

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

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

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

It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special.

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

People in New York love having roof parties.

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

You always think you're better than you are in the beginning.

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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere.

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.

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

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