Quotes from Eric Andre

You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched 'UHF' over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched 'Naked Gun,' 'UHF,' and 'Airplane!' over and over.

ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites.

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

Hannibal Burress is my polar opposite in energy. I can be crazy, and he grounds the 'Eric Andre Show.'

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

People forget at the time that 'The Simpsons' started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said 'hell' and 'damn' in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.

I loved 'Space Ghost' when I was in college.

I was a class clown since second grade.

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

I don't think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a 'Tonight Show' kind of thing. But I'm open to whatever is done well. I don't have any agenda. I'm not like Fugazi - I'm not trying to be just so punk rock until I die. Whatever is funny is good.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.

I think journaling is a key to success. You can set clear goals for yourself. You can start noticing repetitive behavior patterns and see the type of things that keep bothering you, and then you can have a bird's eye view of it.

Dan Curry is the funniest guy in the world. I can sit in a room with him for hours, and he's just cracking me up constantly. And Kitao is the next Terry Gilliam. A lot of comedy directors are just comedic writers, but they don't have any sense of aesthetic or visual vocabulary.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

I will smoke crack before I die. I want to see what all the hubbub is about.

Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows from the '90s. It's like, 'Why do such a bland corporate aesthetic when the sky's the limit with what you can do?'

I've always been obsessed with bad, awkward television and bad public access. Before YouTube, it was a treat coming across that stuff. When I moved to New York, I used to love watching public access late at night.