When you’re getting your facts from people, consider the way that they are being given to you. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
What I love about improv so much is that we are all discovering it at roughly the same time. The performers are maybe, what, a half second ahead of the audience? There’s very little lag time. I think of a thing, I say it, then the audience is laughing and it all happened in a second. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
I always liked dressing up. I think, because I always liked performing, I always liked costumes and things like that. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
Earwolf had approached me a long time ago, even before I had started the ‘Pod F. Tompkast.’ I knew that I wanted to do a podcast, and I knew everyone there and that it was something for me to do, but I didn’t know quite what I wanted to do yet. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
The podcasting world has changed the way I book my shows. I knew that I could announce a gig on a podcast and that people would hear it. People that like what I do would hear, ‘Oh, he’s in my city.’ And that makes it so much easier. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
For me, writing is just a means to an end. It gives me something to do on stage. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn’t even occur to me that that was something you could do. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
I enjoy very traditional stuff, and I enjoy kind of outlandish stuff, and I just really like clothes. I always have. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote