Quotes About Culture

The day people stop watching sex comedies, makers will stop making them.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I've played every comedy club and every theatre across the country for the last 25 years and seen a lot of audience members from different ethnic persuasions.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

Being into comic books is definitely an Americana thing.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

I didn't grow up on comics, and I read very few.

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

I grew up with comics. Whether it be from the East or the West, I devoured them.

Comics have always helped people to read. A lot of people learned to read by reading the comics. And it's our livelihood, after all. If people don't know how to read, they're not reading our comics.

I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

I have always enjoyed coming to Ahmedabad.

I'm very British at heart. When I come to England, I say I'm coming home, and then it's funny: when I leave England to go back to L.A., I also say I'm going back home.

I'm interested in social commentary.

Comedians play off of social commentary.

'Get Out' definitely brought it to the mainstream, but you can look back at the original 'Night of the Living Dead' and that's definitely a commentary on racism.

It's hard to walk down the street without 'Entourage' comments, and that's all nice.

I get quite bemused by the comments made about what I wear because, for African people, how you dress is very important.

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.

A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.