Quotes from Paul F. Tompkins

Just because I have a good vocabulary, I don't think of myself as anachronistic - just because I try not to use the word 'like' every other word.

I consume a lot of podcasts. I'm a voracious podcast consumer.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

When I go in to 'Comedy Bang Bang,' I'll go in most of the time with some beats of where we're going with the idea. Everything else is improvised. Nothing is scripted. A lot of times I'll go in there with nothing and it's just conversation with the character.

I've had people - I've seen people do routines that I knew they didn't take from me but they had - because for whatever reason I had stopped doing it a long time ago. There's no way they would have heard this bit. But it ends up being pretty much the same thing.

I love clothing, and I love fashion, but I think that there is too much pedantry in fashion, and saying, 'You have to wear all of these things together; you can't button this button.' You know, all of that kind of stuff.

I always wanted to be a performer.

What I love about improv so much is that we are all discovering it at roughly the same time. The performers are maybe, what, a half second ahead of the audience? There's very little lag time. I think of a thing, I say it, then the audience is laughing and it all happened in a second.

More than just a sobering history lesson, 'Angry Birds' is a beautiful game. It's absolutely lovely.

I have a friend who only buttons the bottom button of his suit jacket, which you're not supposed to do. 'Supposed to do.' But it's his thing, and it's his personal style, and it's like you've got to honor that. People can do whatever they want.

You can find nice clothes that suit your style at any number of places - Goodwill, Salvation Army, stores like that. They're all over the place. If you put in the time, you can find good stuff at decent prices.

I seem to be one of those people that's immune to Super Bowl fever. I may be a carrier, but I'm immune to it myself.

Look, we have long known that birds and pigs are mortal enemies. That's just the way of the world. Birds hate pigs.

If you pay attention, stand-up can be great improv training ground. But one of the things that helped me the most was doing warm-up for the 'Mr. Show' tapings way back when.

The first time I did Cake Boss or Ice-T or Andrew Lloyd Webber was on 'Best Week Ever.'

It's important for us all to elect people not just on blind party loyalty. We've got to really examine what candidates say and do.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

I don't know grammar but I do know that I love playing games on my phone.

I just approach everything by just doing the best job I can do and try to be a pleasant person.

Comedy Bang! Bang!' has meant so much to me over the years, and has brought me so much and so many new fans.

I got married and we had a relatively simple wedding and there were not a lot of thrills to it.

It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.

I always liked dressing up. I think, because I always liked performing, I always liked costumes and things like that.

A big difference between podcasts and radio is the intimacy. Radio oftentimes feels big and loud. To me, podcasting is closest to that weird late night stuff, whether it's late night love song request lines, or it's some talk radio show where you feel like you're the only person listening to it.