Michael Showalter Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• I don't personally feel comfortable performing in a comedy club, mainly because as an audience member, I've never enjoyed that experience. It feels a little bit theme-park-ish to me, in that it's a club whose product is comedy. I find that weird. It's like those specialty chocolate stores, where everything is chocolate. It's too specific. I like going somewhere that specializes in variety.

  Michael Showalter

  Chocolate, Comedy, Performing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was kind of in an experimental phase with The Disposable Rappers. This is boring to me, because it's true, but when I was a sophomore in high school, I visited my sister in college and saw an improv troupe, and that was a genuine moment for me. It was an actual "Aha!" moment. After I saw that, I said, "I want to do comedy." So The Disposable Rappers started doing improv in addition to rapping, and when I went to college, I very specifically went saying "I want to join a comedy group."

  Michael Showalter

  Rap, School, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

• A big reason why we were able to and have been able to continue to succeed is that we had a very intense work ethic, right from the beginning. There was a do-or-die attitude toward the work. It wasn't seen as a little "club." It was like, "This is your life." We would spend hours and hours rehearsing and endlessly rewriting. We took it very seriously right off the bat. And we were also extremely critical of each other, which was another thing that was unique. A lot of comedy ensembles have a hard time being critical of each other, because they don't want to hurt each other's feelings.

  Michael Showalter

  Hurt, Attitude, Hard Times

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The only Train song I like is the one that I play in my act "Drops Of Jupiter". Sheryl Crow has three or four songs that I like; also Dave Matthews Band. With those particular musicians, it's more that there are a few songs that I like rather than their entire body of work. There are a lot of indie bands that I like too. I'm not a snob about music. Does the fact that I like Stephen Sondheim and Broadway musicals make me a fake? Does the fact that I'm "the Billy Joel of comedy" mean that I don't have indie-rock credibility?

  Michael Showalter

  Song, Mean, Fake

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Will Ferrell is probably the funniest comic actor, certainly of my generation. I am a huge, huge Will Ferrell fan. I'm not a huge comedy buff, truthfully. What I find funny is either something unbelievably stupid, like Dumb And Dumber or Airplane!, where the jokes are just so stupid and pointless, or something like The Office or The Comeback, where the humor is in the excruciating awkwardness of a situation. Stella kind of explores both of those, stupidity and awkwardness.

  Michael Showalter

  Stupid, Airplane, Office

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 28, 2008.

• Maybe in 10 years,I'll only be doing "classical" comedy. Or crashing my car into trees.

  Michael Showalter

  Car, Tree, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.

  Michael Showalter

  Trying, Different, Comedy

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 28, 2008.

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