Brett Gelman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.
-- Brett Gelman

#Dark #Comedy #Flaws
I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.
-- Brett Gelman

#Loneliness #Real #Party
I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.
-- Brett Gelman

#Dark #Thinking #Life Is
We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.
-- Brett Gelman

#Laughing #Hard Life #Hitting
I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.
-- Brett Gelman

#Live Life #Trying #Example
I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.
-- Brett Gelman

#Darkness #Being Funny
I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.
-- Brett Gelman

#Fun #Be Kind #Stranger
I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.
-- Brett Gelman

#Actors #Care #Comedy
Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.
-- Brett Gelman

#Real #People #Coming Out
Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.
-- Brett Gelman

#Character #Thinking #People

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