Todd Barry Quotes

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Todd Barry

Profession : Comedian

Birth : March 26, 1964

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

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Anyone who bombs is my friend.

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I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

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I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also.

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

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And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

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

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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.

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I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value.

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

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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.

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I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

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I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.

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I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all.

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I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.

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