Quotes from Josh Blue

I memorize stuff that I know works, and then 25 percent is just feeding off the audience and going where they want to go. Sometimes things flop. That's where the jokes come in.

I worked at the zoo for three months, and I got to be very close with the 400 pound gorilla. And I was one of three people in the world that could touch him.

But the good thing about performing every night is I don't have any excuse not to try something new every day.

My show is not all about the cerebral palsy, but it definitely comes from that point of view. I tried to do my show from a Southern belle point of view, but that didn't work quite right.

I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is the mortar. You piece it all together and have a certain flow to it.

I've always been a horrible public speaker. If I had to give a presentation, I would cry.

I set out to be a comedian, and then the spokesperson thing is kind of just something that came along with it.

The more I move on stage, the more people are just drawn to the movement. The way that I walk and my gait - it's very eye catching. And the way my hand hooks and moves on its own - it's almost hypnotic.

I feel like I'm at the point in my career where I'm ready to be the next big funny movie star.

I wasn't doing the comedy thing at all for six months. And it was just eating at my soul.

The thing about my comedy is that I'm so comfortable with my disability that you don't have a right to be uncomfortable.

Whether you know it or not, when you leave one of my shows, you have a different understanding of disabilities and what disability is.

At Evergreen you can create your own major and your own classes. So I actually studied stand-up comedy.

I'd be the only disabled kid in the neighborhood playing football, and we're playing full contact, and I'd always manage to get open.

I would go to open-mic nights and realize that I was not near as bad as half the people.

The way my body works, people are always going to stare at me. It's just human nature.

When I was young, I realized that people were going to stare at me my whole life, so I might as well give them something to stare at.

It's hard enough for disabled people to get acting jobs without able-bodied people taking them. As an actor, I know that I'm not going to be stealing any able-bodied roles from any able-bodied people.

I can't draw a straight line.

My thing is I'm not very P.C., but I'm tactful. I try not to offend anyone.

The whole opportunity of being on 'Last Comic' gave me the chance to display me being funny on and off stage.

I'm just living my life the way I want to live it, as opposed to the way people think I should live it.

It's just so weird that some people recognize me from TV and then other people say, 'Get away from me, you drunk!'

I feel like every person has a disability in some way. Whether you're dyslexic or Republican or whatever.