Eric Andre Quotes
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[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.
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I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.
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If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.
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I'm insecure, and I need the validation of strangers to feel whole. So, I need every single racist 12-year-old on the Internet to like me, or I don't feel complete.
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I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.
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I think that we put too much weight on who the president is.
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Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."
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There's two sides to the coin. I think I'm much happier that [Barack] Obama won over John McCain or Mitt Romney, because I think Obama did something culturally for the country.
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I'm an elderly Jewish lesbian trapped in a 33 year old nerd's body.
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Wonder Showzen was one of the first shows that realized each sketch, each segment is essentially one joke, and, once you know what the joke is, it's time to move on.
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I will smoke crack before I die. I want to see what all the hubbub is about.
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I feel the acting conservatory taught me how to be a working actor in the 1700s. We learned stuff like 'to the back of the auditorium, to the back of the auditorium' and the liquid "u." 'The payment is duuue on Tuuuesday.' I also learned how to fence. If anything, when I moved to Los Angeles, I didn't fit in, in any way. I had to do comedy, because I was talking so pretentiously.
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I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.
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I care a lot; I'm very sensitive.
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Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.
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Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.
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I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.
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How many n-bombs are dropped? It depends on what I post.
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Comedy is often about pain.
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I can't tell if the world is worse now or if we just have more cameras. There are cameras everywhere, so now the world knows how bad the world is.
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The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.
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Bill Cosby spoke out against The Simpsons and there was this kind of evangelical, right-wing sect that was against The Simpsons. Fox was a new network at the time, though, so they were going to take risks.
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You can make fun of your own a lot easier than someone else's.
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Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.
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I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.
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I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.
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I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.
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You see a lot of sketch variety shows where each segment is one joke that they repeat over and over and over again, and the sketches are always three or four minutes too long.
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Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.
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All motivation is defined by intention. If the intention is to hurt, divide, or belittle, it's wrong; if it's an attempt to cope with or make sense of tragedy, it's something different. If it's commenting on society's flaws, versus adding to society's flaws, I think the audience can tell.
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