Comedy Quotes by Paul F. Tompkins

17 Comedy quotes by Paul F. Tompkins

All Comedy quotes Paul F. Tompkins’s page

Paul F. Tompkins mixes brainy references with surreal twists. Across 17 quotes you’ll see his talent for turning clever observations into delightfully odd comedy.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

I think that we all enjoy silliness to varying degrees but I think everyone can enjoy a relatable thing if it is…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

Comedy Bang! Bang!' has meant so much to me over the years, and has brought me so much and so many new…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

If you pay attention, stand-up can be great improv training ground. But one of the things that helped me the most was…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

Politics is a thing that is kind of the same over and over and over again. But we have to find new…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

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

Image

I love bad comedy more than I love good comedy, so I love open mics. Or I used to. But the thing…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst. Here's what cheering is: "Look…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

There's something strange about comedy requests. I guess if you enjoy something, why not hear it again? But there's something weird about…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

Cake Boss, I guess, has been made aware of my impression and finds it amusing and recognizes that it's not a completely…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don't like it.…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

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

Image

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

Image

Other authors on Comedy

More by Paul F. Tompkins

You can find nice clothes that suit your style at any number of places - Goodwill, Salvation Army, stores like that. They're all over…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

If you pay attention, stand-up can be great improv training ground. But one of the things that helped me the most was doing warm-up…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

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

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

I love to do the stream-of-consciousness thing, because it's exciting for me, and I like to think it's exciting for the audience, too.

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

Fonzie was impossibly cool.

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

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 absolutely the…

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

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

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

It's important for us all to elect people not just on blind party loyalty. We've got to really examine what candidates say and do.

Paul F. Tompkins

Image

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

Paul F. Tompkins

Image