My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis movies. I later got into watching stand-ups like Eddie Murphy, who was my main inspiration. Erik Griffin Read Quote
Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out. Erik Griffin Read Quote
It’s not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny. Erik Griffin Read Quote
When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they’re doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like. Erik Griffin Read Quote
I think the best compliment you can receive is not, ‘Oh, that was really funny,’ but, ‘Is that the first time you said that?’ It’s something that you’ve said a thousand times, but if somebody says to you, ‘Oh my God, is that the first time you’ve done that?’ you know that performance was where you wanted it. Erik Griffin Read Quote
I started going to the open mics every day in 2003. You make the comics laugh, they get you work, and you build up your reputation. It was a slow process. Erik Griffin Read Quote
People don’t realize it’s not just about being funny, and they don’t know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples’ emotions. Erik Griffin Read Quote
