Quotes By Todd Barry

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it's not that brutal. It's only $6.

People in New York love having roof parties.

I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that.

I will not be misquoted!

I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special.

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.

Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself.

Anyone who bombs is my friend.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere.

If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me.

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written.

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

There's people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it's garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job.

I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.

I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.