Chris Gethard Quotes

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Chris Gethard

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 23, 1980

New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing them down. Los Angeles, I learned, is a city full of people who have the personality of the coolest pretty boy from your eighth-grade class.

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Thank you to anyone who's ever watched or supported 'TCGS.' Even if you checked it out once, hated it, and never checked it out again - thank you for giving us a chance.

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Sometimes we get bored and want to shake up our format. It's a luxury we have on public access - no one cares about us. It literally doesn't matter if we fail, so sometimes we try to go really big and out of the box.

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I think there's too many gay jokes in comedy and not enough honest explorations of sexuality.

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To a crowd that loves improv, Robin Williams is like Chuck Berry.

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I think I'm a very notoriously positive comic.

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I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

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I've said some things on stage where the crowd was like, 'Whoa, that's bad' - and I never say it again because that's the feedback I get.

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I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.

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I think one of the things about listening is that it's always at its most powerful when it's present, when it's right here, when it's right now. And that's a lesson about improv that I think just made me a much more social person.

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I am scared of horror movies.

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I do know I've lived through a bunch of things that people would maybe prefer I keep behind closed doors.

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I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don't think comedy needs to be 'brave' or 'important.'

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One thing I've realized is that being a nerd has transformed. I like that it's easier to read comic books and, like, 'Lord of the Rings' now. You don't have to get punched in the chest in the gym locker room for that anymore.

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When I was growing up, I think I was expected to be seen and not heard. You're this little, nerdy kid; no one wants to hear about how sad you are. Nobody wants to hear that you feel lonely.

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You don't often see vulnerability on TV, especially talk shows.

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If I pretended to be confident all the time, that would just be a lie.

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I didn't like who I was. I spent a lot of my life regretting who I was, which is a sad thing to say.

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The whole romanticized 'sad clown' thing, we gotta get rid of that. That has to go! That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

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I very classically would go into manic phases, which were as dangerous, if not more so, than the depressed phases, and I think I'd come up with the best ideas I ever had, and then the next day, I'd look at them and be like, 'This is nonsense,' because it was born out of a manic episode. What a waste of time.

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