Performing live can be a drag, the process that leads up to the actual performance. It’s all the travel, it’s working up all the details and everything, which I hate. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
Writing a book is something I actually feel like I could do. I don’t know when that would happen, but I feel like if the right idea strikes, whether it be short stories or a novel or even a memoir that would be more substantial than most of the comedian memoirs people put out where it’s big font and all the chapters are like ten pages long. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don’t like it. And they are completely within their rights, just as you are completely within your rights to say whatever you want to say. They’re within their rights to react how they’re going to react. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
I’ve said things that, now, I wish I hadn’t said because times have changed and like the me of 15-20 years ago made a joke that I wouldn’t make today because I – just because I look at the world differently now, you know. And because the world is different now. And, you know, it’s all part of a maturation process, I think, for everybody. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
The first thing you start with when you’re trying to write something funny is it has to – it really has to come to you first. I has to be an idea that you have that first makes you laugh, that strikes you as funny. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
I think that we all enjoy silliness to varying degrees but I think everyone can enjoy a relatable thing if it is expressed in a funny way. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
We each have our own style but yeah, when you boil it down like there are certain things that human beings just are predisposed to laugh at and we’re just kind of all putting our own spin on it. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
I’ve had people – I’ve seen people do routines that I knew they didn’t take from me but they had – because for whatever reason I had stopped doing it a long time ago. There’s no way they would have heard this bit. But it ends up being pretty much the same thing. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
There’s so much being said about Donald Trump already, all the time, and the more you joke about him, the more you risk making the same jokes other people are making about him. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn’t always do right by us, and that they focus on things they shouldn’t for ratings, is very important, and it’s absolutely worthy of ridicule. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
