Latest Moshe Kasher Quotes from Interviews

• life becomes satire in real time, what good is the premiere satire magazine? It might as well just be the newspaper. You could pick up The Wall Street Journal and be like, "Oh, what a funny Onion headline!" And then the editor of The Onion is like, "Huh. I guess you won't be needing me anymore."

  Moshe Kasher

  Wall, Real, Satire

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think people are lonely and desperate for attention and unemployed and bored. I don't mean that these are losers that live with their mom, although that is true for many of these people. I think people in general are literally underemployed and lonely and bored in this country because of the economic downturn, and because of the isolation that's available because of the internet. The internet has both freed people up to connect with each other and isolated them.

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Country, Lonely

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There's a deeper conversation to be had on guns, and just because I happen to know where I fall into that conversation doesn't mean that I don't want to have that conversation.

  Moshe Kasher

  Fall, Mean, Gun

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There's all this evidence that we leave now of our life, especially if you're a comedian or an entertainer. I mean, I guess that was always kind of true, but now there's a lot more. We leave a deeper trail. Like a snail trail of our memories, you know? But it's not really about arousal. It's about artistic droppings.

  Moshe Kasher

  Memories, Mean, Comedian

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.

  Moshe Kasher

  Trying, Demon, Shallow

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to bring it to the world.

  Moshe Kasher

  Book, Writing, Fiction

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• Who's famous anymore? No one. There are these comedians that are famous in a weird way. There are comedians, like Anjelah Johnson and Russell Peters, [who] are unbelievably famous, but in a way they're selling out 1,000-person stadiums.

  Moshe Kasher

  Comedian, Way, Selling

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been after fame. That sounds cliché, but it's true. I think fame sounds uncomfortable to me, but being able to like write this book and make my living doing very exciting, creative stuff sounds really amazing. It has been really amazing.

  Moshe Kasher

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out.

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• When you start doing comedy, you think to yourself, "I want to be a headliner." And you become a headliner, and you're like, "Oh wait, this isn't what I meant. I meant I want to be a headliner that's famous enough that people come see me specifically." And that's a huge leap, because most of the time most of the audience is there to see comedy in general. They're not there to see you.

  Moshe Kasher

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• Sometimes my humor does offend people, and I've said it before: I don't write jokes to be offensive. I write jokes to be funny, and I guess what I find funny are things that other people sometimes find offensive. I would love nothing more than to never offend anyone, but it just doesn't seem to work out that way.

  Moshe Kasher

  Writing, Work Out, People

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• My brother and I both like sarcastic, insulting comedy, so that's a way we communicate. Somehow that's what we learned. My mom is not a really sarcastic person. She's a really sort of overly loving person, and my brother and I came out little cynical bastards.

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Sarcastic, Brother

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• In keeping with the theme of "I got my hands on," my brother and I would listen to The Diceman Cometh. That was the dirtiest thing we'd ever heard, and we could listen to that at full volume without fear of penalty, because my mom couldn't hear that either. I wasn't a huge comedy fan growing up, but I definitely listened to Andrew Dice Clay a lot.

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Brother, Growing Up

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice." And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too."

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Growing Up, Nice

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• I got a naughty thrill out of listening to music that was that dirty, especially being that young and able to listen to it around my parents. Kids would come over to my house to listen to Too $hort records.

  Moshe Kasher

  Dirty, Kids, Naughty

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.

  Moshe Kasher

  Childhood, Black, Sound

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back to that. Marc Maron had me on WTF making fun of me about that when I first opened for him. I had this very kind of hip-hop bravado to me, and I realized that now I've let some of that go in my stage presence, that maybe that was because I had dropped that completely from my life, and when I got onstage I sort of rekindled it. And I think now that it was perhaps a defense mechanism that was left over from those days, which I think is kind of interesting.

  Moshe Kasher

  Fun, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.

  Moshe Kasher

  Kids, Black, Firsts

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of sudden you're in the third act of the book and in this very dark and claustrophobic place.

  Moshe Kasher

  Reading, Book, Dark

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it was becoming serious in and on its own. By the end, it's not very funny at all. I think, now, that part of the power of the book is that the jokes are kind of sparkly distractions.

  Moshe Kasher

  Book, Thinking, Becoming

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told the story, obviously. I wanted it be comedy first, because I felt like there already had been childhood druggy stories that were very serious, and I felt that the unique thing here was that I was a comic and I could tell the story with some levity, and I have been laughing at these stories my whole life.

  Moshe Kasher

  Book, Writing, Unique

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.

  Moshe Kasher

  Growing Up, Kids, Home

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• Richard Pryor had real sincere and vulnerable moments. Now it seems so cheesy if you stop your act and say, "This is why we have to help them kids. We've got to make sure them kids can read."

  Moshe Kasher

  Real, Kids, Cheesy

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

• And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.

  Moshe Kasher

  Thinking, Littles, Way

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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