Eric Andre Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

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.

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.

How many n-bombs are dropped? It depends on what I post.

Comedy is often about pain.

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

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

I think that we put too much weight on who the president is.

There's two sides to the coin. I think I'm much happier that [Barack] Obama won over John McCain or Mitt Romney, because I think Obama did something culturally for the country.

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

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

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

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.

I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.

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.