Andy Samberg Quotes
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I'm a big Letterman fan.
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Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.
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My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.
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I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.
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Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's not a ton of jokes, but you get huge laughs because there's a moment of relief.
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I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.
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If something is making us bored, we should probably keep it shorter.
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A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.
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I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view.
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No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.
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As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.
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We started out on the Internet, so I've been reading what people had to say about stuff since we were getting mean comments on iFilm, before we even had our site going. People are really, really rough on the web - that's their right, that's the whole point of it - but sometimes it can be a little bit brutal.
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I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.
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No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There is stuff that is blown up on the Internet that isn't hugely successful with the entire world, and vice versa. I don't put a tremendous amount of stock in it, but at the same time, you always want people to like what you're doing. Certainly, to have come from an Internet background, we want to stay faithful and have people be supportive and happy with what we're doing.
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It’s crazy. Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women... f**king idiot-ass men keep saying that women aren't funny. It makes me crazy. I find it disgusting and offensive every time.
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Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.
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That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
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I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
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It's cool to know that you're doing something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy, even though my bread and butter is a little dirtier. It's cool to just be involved in something that's that big and joyous and meant to make people feel happy.
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Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.
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I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
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The older you get, the funnier fart jokes are.
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I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.
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Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.
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If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
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I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.
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If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode.
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If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.
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I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. If something is taking a chance and is willing to be weird, that's my favorite thing. I know there's somebody out there who hates it.
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If I was any more on edge, I'd be Bono.
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