Paul F. Tompkins

Fonzie was impossibly cool.

— Paul F. Tompkins

Everyone is always asking me about clothes.

— Paul F. Tompkins

Elections are so crazy.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I'm not afraid of you, 'American Idol.'

— Paul F. Tompkins

I always wanted to be a performer.

— Paul F. Tompkins

“Long story short: The end.”

— Paul F. Tompkins

An audience can become a mob very easily.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I don't find monkeys inherently funny.

— Paul F. Tompkins

There are absolutely no limits with podcasting because you can do anything you want.

— Paul F. Tompkins

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

— Paul F. Tompkins

Some people just want to make up the funny things and play pretend.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I like 'Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period' podcast.

— Paul F. Tompkins

Dress how you like to dress. Don't worry so much about rules.

— Paul F. Tompkins

When I started my own podcast, I realized I definitely wanted to do characters.

— Paul F. Tompkins

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

— Paul F. Tompkins

From a personal standpoint I really like that Bernie Sanders is making so much noise.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I love words, and I love that there's so many words available to make a point and to create a picture.

— Paul F. Tompkins

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do…

— Paul F. Tompkins

When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I would love to see the Replacements get back together at the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina, because I never got to…

— Paul F. Tompkins

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

— Paul F. Tompkins

I haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like…

— Paul F. Tompkins

People are going to hire you, or they're not, and there's only so much you can do to hedge your bets.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I think that a lot of times Mr. Peanutbutter is absolutely speaking directly to the audience and saying basic, human truths that…

— Paul F. Tompkins

What I love about improv so much is that we are all discovering it at roughly the same time. The performers are…

— Paul F. Tompkins

The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn't always do right by us, and…

— Paul F. Tompkins

A big difference between podcasts and radio is the intimacy. Radio oftentimes feels big and loud. To me, podcasting is closest to…

— Paul F. Tompkins

It is so easy to avoid getting in a fist fight. If you're at a point where you're squaring up against someone…

— Paul F. Tompkins

The first time on stage is such a blur to me. I remember how it felt more than anything. I remember everything…

— Paul F. Tompkins

When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn't…

— Paul F. Tompkins

You can make me laugh at a thing that I think is horrific. You can make me laugh at a thing that…

— Paul F. Tompkins

We each have our own style but yeah, when you boil it down like there are certain things that human beings just…

— Paul F. Tompkins

With stand-up you meet almost constant rejection. You put yourself out there with your thoughts and your ideas, and you think they're…

— Paul F. Tompkins

The difference when I'm writing a story versus writing a joke is that writing a joke is so much more about the…

— Paul F. Tompkins

If the idea is you're working at a job solely to pay the bills because you have ambitions to do something else,…

— Paul F. Tompkins

To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Now I don't care what people think. I did some internet campaign where I was the voice of a puppet for Ford…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I was going to say it's pretty bad these days, but I actually think it's pretty much the same as it's always…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I meet Daniel Day-Lewis. He's just sitting in a chair on the set. Now, I had been told that Daniel Day-Lewis was…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I came from a big family, with not enough attention. It's classic. I wasn't the baby, but was second to last. It's…

— Paul F. Tompkins