Baron Vaughn Quotes

Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea.

If you're driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes.

The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.

The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say.

Sometimes you're not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn't mean it's not funny. It means you haven't explored it enough.

I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.

I'm working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I've looked up to from a very young age.

Lily Tomlin...I used to watch reruns of Laugh-In and she was always my favorite part. She's this very unique talent and the way she does things has been a very big influence on me.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.

The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.

One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.

I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.

Netflix is very protective with their information .

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.

I think Batman Returns is right for riffs. I love it but it's the ultimate Tim Burton movie. There is so much that happens that's crazy and there are a ton of things to riff.

I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

The thing is that where I want to go isn't necessarily tied to what's going on there politically, but I think Vietnam is a really beautiful country. I think Thailand is also really beautiful.