Quote

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

J. B. Smoove

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

J. B. Smoove
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 16
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Plymouth
North Carolina
Jerry Angelo Brooks
Jerry Brooks
Thing
Improv
Started
Stand
Class
Firsts
First
Take

More quotes by J. B. Smoove

Image
I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.
J. B. Smoove
Image
What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
J. B. Smoove
Image
I think comedy evolves constantly. I reinvent myself all the time. I always find a way to entertain myself because I truly believe you have to entertain yourself in order to relate it the right way to your audience.
J. B. Smoove
Image
You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?
J. B. Smoove
Image
If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.
J. B. Smoove
Image
I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at SNL, I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you’re going to end up at.
J. B. Smoove
Image
I'm looking to be the next comedy mogul.
J. B. Smoove
Image
Curb Your Enthusiasm set me up so perfectly. That was one of my favorite shows before I got on it. That started a whole different level of a story for me. I didn't know how to process it until after I got on the show and realized what the purpose of it was.
J. B. Smoove
Image
I should be European. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.
J. B. Smoove
Image
Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?
J. B. Smoove
Image
I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
J. B. Smoove
Image
It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
J. B. Smoove
Image
I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS.
J. B. Smoove
Image
Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we're doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would perform in front of a mirror and never go to a club. We are giving this away. Some people are going through so much in their lives, they want to hear something else that's going on in the world and laugh.
J. B. Smoove
Image
It's not even race it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.
J. B. Smoove
Image
If I had signed my fourth season of SNL, I wouldn't have ever had the opportunity to do Curb Your Enthusiasm. If my buddy OG Pearson wouldn't have passed away, I wouldn't have been in L.A. for his memorial, and I would've never auditioned for Curb.
J. B. Smoove
Image
This Italian restaurant I'm at is authentic! When they seat you, they give you a mustache.
J. B. Smoove
Image
There're rules to being the side chick. Rule number one: you're number two.
J. B. Smoove
Image
Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.
J. B. Smoove
Image
Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
J. B. Smoove