I think comedy is incredibly discriminated against. It is one of the most enjoyed yet most condescended art forms in the world.… — Brett Gelman Art Copy Share Image
Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh.… — Brett Gelman About Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. — Brett Gelman Being funny Copy Share Image
I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up. — Brett Gelman Actor Copy Share Image
I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort. — Brett Gelman Audience Copy Share Image
I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that. — Brett Gelman Comedy Copy Share Image
I look upon 'A Little Bit of Luck' as a very bizarre, happy, surreal memory. — Brett Gelman Happy Copy Share Image
I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. — Brett Gelman Actor Copy Share Image
Jason Woliner and I have been longtime friends and collaborators. — Brett Gelman Been Copy Share Image
Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it. — Brett Gelman Art of life Copy Share Image
I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil. — Brett Gelman Anything Copy Share Image
I think it's good news that cable television is so, so supportive of the Louis C.K.s, the Lena Dunhams, the Matthew Weiners,… — Brett Gelman Cable Copy Share Image
Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming… — Brett Gelman Character Copy Share Image
A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather… — Brett Gelman Hard Copy Share Image
'Dinner' is completely scripted. There are some improv elements, but I'm not interested in pranking people. It's more like a play than… — Brett Gelman Dinner Copy Share Image
I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed,… — Brett Gelman Brothers Copy Share Image
Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to… — Brett Gelman Go Copy Share Image
I hate it when I see people texting at a show. And talking to each other. They're at a performance; they should… — Brett Gelman Hate Copy Share Image
I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to… — Brett Gelman Life Copy Share Image
As someone who is on the more liberal side of things, I personally think this side needs to be a little less… — Brett Gelman Europe Copy Share Image
We spend so much of our lives doing math problems on how to feel good. It's such a waste of time. You're… — Brett Gelman Feel Copy Share Image
Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women… — Brett Gelman Action Copy Share Image
I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just… — Brett Gelman I love Copy Share Image
I don't hate oatmeal raisin, but it is the worst cookie. Profoundly disappointing. — Brett Gelman Cookie Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about… — Brett Gelman Actor Copy Share Image
I always at least try to come from some sort of human place no matter how ridiculous the character is. That's really… — Brett Gelman Character Copy Share Image
We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really… — Brett Gelman Freedom Copy Share Image
Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the… — Brett Gelman Art Copy Share Image
I have Janicza solely to thank for my growth as an actor because she saw in me something that other people just… — Brett Gelman Actor Copy Share Image
Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he… — Brett Gelman Again Copy Share Image
I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the… — Brett Gelman Beauty Copy Share Image
I think the thing that really started setting my career on the course that it's on is when I did '1000 Cats'… — Brett Gelman Career Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to… — Brett Gelman Actor Copy Share Image
There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of… — Brett Gelman Art Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are… — Brett Gelman Being funny Copy Share Image
I love Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but if I'm not in the right frame of mind to watch their work,… — Brett Gelman Frame of mind Copy Share Image
