Tiffany: You're not a standup guy today, Pat!
No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.
People love their comic books.
Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.
This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Dieg...
People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.
I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.
My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.
I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for comic book heroes. They have these cool stats on the back. I had collections of these things. I still have a lot of my collection at home.
Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, or Joan Rivers. There are a lot of good comics out there, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is...
As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.
I'm a comic book fan.
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
Comics don't like to see other comics do well.
I love comic books. I just do.
I love comic books and I love anime.
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.
I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.
