Brett Gelman Quotes
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Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.
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Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It's a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.
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I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.
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A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.
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I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.
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I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?
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I look upon A Little Bit of Luck as a very bizarre, happy, surreal memory.
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Nobody wants to see a woman on screen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.
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Gilbert Gottfried, I think, is just the most underappreciated comedian in the world. I think that he doesn't get enough credit for how funny he is.
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I think comedy is incredibly discriminated against. It is one of the most enjoyed yet most condescended art forms in the world. It's the same thing with hip-hop.
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A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather than thinking, 'Oh, wait - doing what they do normally is really hard.
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We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.
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Dinner is completely scripted. There are some improv elements, but I'm not interested in pranking people. It's more like a play than standup.
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I think some people watch Raging Bull, or they watch The Piano Teacher, and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.
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I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the past, and they're always just trying different styles.
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I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
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I think that all the Mel Brooks' company of actors is just tremendous. It was a crazy group of genius people. All of them taught me what kind of actor I should be and what was funny.
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I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, Oh, that guy. I want people to start saying, Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.
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I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions.
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Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has to come from the character.
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I love Seinfeld. That was not alternative. You can't get more in mainstream than that.
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I always at least try to come from some sort of human place no matter how ridiculous the character is. That's really awesome. That is more the work that I'm leaning towards doing.
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I've definitely seen people get angry or really uncomfortable with stuff I've made in the past. And my stand-up, if you could call what I do stand-up, is quite aggressive, too.
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I love Brody Stevens. He's one of my favorite stand-ups.