Chris Gethard

I'm a pescatarian.

— Chris Gethard

I get to do comedy for a living.

— Chris Gethard

Creativity saved me.

— Chris Gethard

I'm a dummy from New Jersey.

— Chris Gethard

I am scared of horror movies.

— Chris Gethard

As far as comedy goes, I'm endlessly inspired by Jo Firestone.

— Chris Gethard

No one in New York hangs out in their apartments.

— Chris Gethard

I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.

— Chris Gethard

Bedbugs have never been cool, and bedbugs will never be cool.

— Chris Gethard

You don't often see vulnerability on TV, especially talk shows.

— Chris Gethard

I'm not exactly Don Draper when it comes to physical attractiveness.

— Chris Gethard

I'm just trying to do my part before I get hit by a bus.

— Chris Gethard

No aspect of my brief and mild fame actually made me happier.

— Chris Gethard

People who get lucky, also tend to be really great looking, which is luck on some level, but it is also just…

— Chris Gethard

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

— Chris Gethard

I remember the people who mentored me, and I just love being able to do that for other people.

— Chris Gethard

If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.

— Chris Gethard

I feel like a lot of performers' worst shows happened in Philly. There's something about that town.

— Chris Gethard

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a…

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Having money didn't make me less of a socially incapable loser; it just made me a socially incapable loser who wasn't in…

— Chris Gethard

I can legitimately say without being arrogant that there's probably a stretch where I was one of the better teachers of improv…

— Chris Gethard

You see people - maybe in a frustrating fashion - that don't get embraced, when they should. You get some people who…

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When young comedians ask me for advice that's the one thing I always say is if they're improvisers I'm like do improv,…

— Chris Gethard

I just really remember the feeling of being a younger comedian who was kind of an outlier for being experimental and weird…

— Chris Gethard

There's a lot of exhibitionists who want to tell their stories anonymously and there's a whole lot of voyeurs who want to…

— Chris Gethard

In 2002, I was taking an improv class because, as a white male with glasses who was born between 1978 and 1994,…

— Chris Gethard

Sometimes I get gigs in weird, artsy places because weird, artsy people embraced my public-access show, which I could only have done…

— Chris Gethard

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through…

— Chris Gethard

When I really have it together, I think I successfully pull off looking like the exact middle point between Macklemore and Ron…

— Chris Gethard

Both creatively and organizationally, being medicated has helped me immensely. My career did not start until I was medicated. And then I…

— Chris Gethard

Talking about the fact that I get depressed or that I've had some suicidal issues in my life is not easy. I…

— Chris Gethard

The Internet seems like a safe house for the opposite mentality, for cynics and for jerks and for people who want to…

— Chris Gethard

You need an immense amount of luck and an immense amount of perseverance to even be on the playing field for success…

— Chris Gethard

I very classically would go into manic phases, which were as dangerous, if not more so, than the depressed phases, and I…

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If there's one regret I have of my time in comedy it's that I really I was so obsessed with improv for…

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In late 2004, I left my much-maligned home state of New Jersey for the supposedly greener pastures of Astoria, Queens. I'd finally…

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It's nice that I can go on the road and there are more people to buy tickets. There are also more people…

— Chris Gethard

Everyone likes to laugh. Everyone likes to dance along to some music.

— Chris Gethard

To a crowd that loves improv, Robin Williams is like Chuck Berry.

— Chris Gethard

I've always been really open onstage.

— Chris Gethard