Eric Andre Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

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

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.

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

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.

[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.

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

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 was a class clown since second grade.

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.

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.

'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.

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

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

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.