Brian Posehn quotes
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“As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.”
-- Brian PosehnSource : "Brian Posehn on why he hates Katy Perry's 'Firework'". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2013.
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“I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was Detroit Rock City. I heard it in the school library, where I lived.”
-- Brian PosehnSource : "Random Rules: Brian Posehn". Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2006.
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“I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some of it - but they actually frightened me.”
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“Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.”
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“I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.”
-- Brian PosehnSource : "Immortalized Q&A – Judge Brian Posehn". Interview with Rachel Poliquin, www.amc.com. 2013.
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“I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.”
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“My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.”
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“Turns out, theres not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.”
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“Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.”
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“I've been trying to quit smoking weed and it's really hard quitting pot. It was actually easier to become a vegetarian because your friends never show up at your house with a sack of beef.”
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“I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.”
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“Because I go outside sometimes, I'm exposed to terrible, terrible music in public.”
-- Brian PosehnSource : "Brian Posehn thinks Sublime fans are "terrible, stinkier" Juggalos". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. September 24, 2016.
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“Whenever you see riot footage on TV - you know, someone throwing a brick in Pakistan or somebody throwing a fiery piece of pooh through a Starbucks window up in Seattle - you ever see anybody throwing anything underhand? I think it just takes all the aggression out of the act.”
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“We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.”
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“If I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, a pretty lady, I'll yell, 'Homo!' She can't get pissed, and I still get the pleasure of yelling at her.”
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“Metal is the feeling of being an outsider, but still being part of something huge.”
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“I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.”
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“My friends are trying to get me to go out on blind dates. Big 'NO' to that because all my friends are a bunch of lying geeks. They're always like, 'Brian, you're really gonna dig this girl. She's got Traci Lords' eyes, Michelle Pfeiffer's nose, Kim Basinger's lips.' Yeah, they always forget to tell me she's also got Charlie Brown's head.”
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“I was just surprised when my wife told me we were having a baby. I was like, Wow, that's awesome. You're going to make a great single mom.”
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“I also smoke a lot of pot, occasionally, every day.”
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“Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.”
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“I love metal songs about metal. That's one of my favorite things. Nobody does that any more. Nobody sings about how metal they are, or about their fans, or about how crazy their pits are.”
-- Brian PosehnSource : "Random Rules: Brian Posehn". Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2006.
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“I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out Depeche Mode. But mostly I wanted stuff with pentagrams and crowns of thorns on it.”
-- Brian PosehnSource : "Random Rules: Brian Posehn". Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2006.
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“Guys don't do that when they go out. Guys don't wear outfits that feature the dong.”
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“When I'm late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn't matter... If that's the rule then just write it down and then I know, you know... I'll read it and I'll write it down on my balls. Right here. Right here on the back of my balls is where I'll write it. On the very back. I'll just lift them and write it nicely.”
-- Brian PosehnSource : "The Comedians of Comedy". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2005.
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“Just got a new car - got a little Miata convertible. Pretty happy about it, except for one thing: I'm 6-foot-6, so now I look like a McDonald's toy.”
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