Quotes By Todd Barry

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.

Anyone who bombs is my friend.

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.

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

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.

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written.

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

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

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.

There's people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it's garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job.

I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.

I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value.

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

Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days.

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 wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.