If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.
As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
I'm not a comic book guy at all.
People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexi...
I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid.
Comic books are a big passion of mine.
Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.
I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.
I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.
My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct.
