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…

— Paul F. Tompkins

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

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

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,…

— Paul F. Tompkins

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

— Paul F. Tompkins

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…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Fonzie was impossibly cool.

— 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

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

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

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

— Paul F. Tompkins

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

— Paul F. Tompkins

I'm sure that like anybody else, I'm probably the sum total of my life experiences. If I'm smart and I've gained any…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Part of our job is to dig deep and rediscover the joy that we had when we were first starting out. Also,…

— Paul F. Tompkins

There's so much being said about Donald Trump already, all the time, and the more you joke about him, the more you…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Making movies is nice, man. A movie with some money behind it? Sweet. So many snacks and stuff. Name-brand. And many different…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing…

— Paul F. Tompkins

As much as I love live performance and as much fun as it can be to travel around, it really is nice…

— 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

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

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

An audience can become a mob very easily.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I like working in television a lot. It's nice to have a place to go every day and a group of people…

— 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

Nobody held a gun to my head and forced me to write recaps about the tenth season of 'American Idol.' Although I…

— Paul F. Tompkins