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Eddie Murphy: “Whatever the fuck make the people laugh, say that shit.” from Raw
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Mitch Hedberg: From 2004 AV Club interview
O: Were you using your one-liner style from the beginning?
Mitch Hedberg: … The one-liner style, that came because I’m not a good storyteller. I would add on to a concept that I thought was funny but was getting no laughs, and I’d get more uptight. I decided to get to the point quicker, get rid of all the fat. When I tell a story, it’s always been very much just the facts, so all my jokes are really stories that are broken down to the most factual sense.
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Russell Brand, interviewed by Dawn French: “I think that the way many people talk about music, comedy has been that for me. I don’t have the core affiliation that many people have with music. But I have the rhythms from Black Adder and Fawlty Towers in my head the way other people remember riffs.”
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Dylan Moran, 2006 interview with the Guardian.
Do you enjoy performing and being in front of the camera?
I enjoy performing, always, but when you’re taping a gig you’ve got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that’s surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won’t be able to do anything.Are you quite self-conscious?
Sometimes.Are you shy?
Probably, yes.Then why perform?
I don’t know. You’d have to be more self-conscious than I obviously am to examine yourself to that degree. And if you did, you’d never do anything - you wouldn’t be able to eat breakfast. So there are some questions I genuinely don’t know the answer to. -
Greg Proops: “I have no time for your judgment. And I am not going to spoonfeed or patronize you at any point. These jokes are marvellously constructed so I would suggest that it’s time to lay down the petty bullshit and precepts you brought in here and get on my satirical comedy train.” — Live from Houston
