Quotes from Brett Gelman

I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.

I've never gone to a bachelor party, where I didn't, no matter how much I loved the people there, hate them so much for their disgusting behavior.

I'm not a fighter. I don't like to get beat up.

It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.

Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It's a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.

I hate it when I see people texting at a show. And talking to each other. They're at a performance; they should respect the performer.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

I think some people watch 'Raging Bull,' or they watch 'The Piano Teacher,' and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It's a very deep art form.

What a great way to make some money is just fine somebody $300 if their phone rings in the theatre. That'll make them remember to turn it off.

I really am not that hairy on my body. It's weird.

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.

Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.

I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.

I don't hate oatmeal raisin, but it is the worst cookie. Profoundly disappointing.

Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the world.

Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.

All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.

I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

Jason Woliner and I have been longtime friends and collaborators.