Eric Andre Quotations

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

I was a class clown since second grade.

I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, but I won't front like I'm super knowledgeable. I just never got around to it.

I used to be a Geico Caveman for live events. I was a corporate mascot. It was the silliest job. It was actually awesome and fun, but it was retarded.

Hannibal Burress is my polar opposite in energy. I can be crazy, and he grounds the 'Eric Andre Show.'

You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.

ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

I loved 'Space Ghost' when I was in college.

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched 'UHF' over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched 'Naked Gun,' 'UHF,' and 'Airplane!' over and over.

From 'Chappelle's Show' to 'Tosh.0,' there's so much race comedy. It's overdone.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

Wonder Showzen was one of the first shows that realized each sketch, each segment is essentially one joke, and, once you know what the joke is, it's time to move on.

Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

All motivation is defined by intention. If the intention is to hurt, divide, or belittle, it's wrong; if it's an attempt to cope with or make sense of tragedy, it's something different. If it's commenting on society's flaws, versus adding to society's flaws, I think the audience can tell.

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

When I'm watching South Park I don't think it's written by neo-Nazis. They know exactly what they're doing.

Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.

Bill Cosby spoke out against The Simpsons and there was this kind of evangelical, right-wing sect that was against The Simpsons. Fox was a new network at the time, though, so they were going to take risks.

You can make fun of your own a lot easier than someone else's.

You see a lot of sketch variety shows where each segment is one joke that they repeat over and over and over again, and the sketches are always three or four minutes too long.

Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.

I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind - there weren't a lot of cartoons for adults. People forget at the time that The Simpsons started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said "hell" and "damn" in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.

I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.

I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.

Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."

I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.

A hole is a hole has always been my motto.

I'm an elderly Jewish lesbian trapped in a 33 year old nerd's body.