Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.

Brett Gelman

Categorized in : Man People Work Women

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

Brett Gelman

flaws comedy dark

I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

Brett Gelman

party loneliness real

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

Brett Gelman

life-is dark thinking

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.

Brett Gelman

hard-life hitting laughing

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

Brett Gelman

live-life example trying

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

Brett Gelman

being-funny darkness

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

Brett Gelman

be-kind stranger fun

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

Brett Gelman

comedy care actors

Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.

Brett Gelman

coming-out real people

Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.

Brett Gelman

character people thinking

Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It's a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.

Brett Gelman

day good change food

The world is pretty messed up.

Brett Gelman

pretty up messed-up world

I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint.

Brett Gelman

need only free speech

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

Brett Gelman

end-of-the-day end day comedy

Talking is not action. Don't just look at what you say. Look at how you socialize.

Brett Gelman

look you action talking

Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.

Brett Gelman

women color people way

Even if somebody is maybe a little less qualified, you can bring them in, you can teach them, and it will also make your work better because you'll have different perspectives. Even if somebody is less talented, they're coming at it from a completely different perspective, and that helps your work.

Brett Gelman

better you perspective work

Don't be proud of me. Do something to make yourself proud of yourself.

Brett Gelman

yourself something me proud

We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

Brett Gelman

support government white people

I really am not that hairy on my body. It's weird.

Brett Gelman

hairy really weird body