Top 35 Todd Barry Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days.”

— Todd Barry

2. “I like Cilantro, but you don’t have to.”

— Todd Barry

3. “Anyone who bombs is my friend.”

— Todd Barry

4. “I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.”

— Todd Barry

5. “I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.”

— Todd Barry

6. “I like pens. My writing is so amazing there’s never a need to erase.”

— Todd Barry

7. “I don’t really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I’d be a contrarian pirate.”

— Todd Barry

8. “I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also.”

— Todd Barry

9. “My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.”

— Todd Barry

10. “And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.”

— Todd Barry

11. “There’s people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it’s garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job.”

— Todd Barry

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12. “It’s cool to go to a place that has posters up and it’s one night only. It feels more special.”

— Todd Barry

13. “If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.”

— Todd Barry

14. “I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.”

— Todd Barry

15. “I mean, I’ve always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that.”

— Todd Barry

16. “I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I’m too classy to bring that up.”

— Todd Barry

17. “I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all.”

— Todd Barry

18. “I loved Australia. I was very successful there.”

— Todd Barry

19. “I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there’s not a lot of teaching involved in that.”

— Todd Barry

20. “I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.”

— Todd Barry

21. “I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you’ve ever written.”

— Todd Barry

22. “Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself.”

— Todd Barry

23. “People in New York love having roof parties.”

— Todd Barry

24. “I haven’t done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There’s tons of it, and they’re better paid.”

— Todd Barry

25. “I mean, I’ve had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I’ve never even thought about, and they’re right.”

— Todd Barry

26. “If I’m at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.”

— Todd Barry

27. “I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.”

— Todd Barry

28. “It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me.”

— Todd Barry

29. “I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.”

— Todd Barry

30. “I’d rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place.”

— Todd Barry

31. “I don’t feel I’m even worthy of a normal amount of value.”

— Todd Barry

32. “I have a podiatrist appointment at 2.”

— Todd Barry

33. “I will not be misquoted!”

— Todd Barry

34. “There seems to be more comedy for comedy’s sake.”

— Todd Barry

35. “I’m particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.”

— Todd Barry

36. “I don’t know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.”

— Todd Barry

37. “I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.”

— Todd Barry

38. “You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it’s not that brutal. It’s only $6.”

— Todd Barry