25+ Eric Andre Quotes to Light Up Your Day

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Light up your day by reading the words of the genius comedian, Eric Andre quotes. Eric Andre has been an actor, musician, comedian, and television host.

One of his famous shows is The Eric Andre Show. The show presents humor, sketches, pranks, and interviews. Eric Andre acts as an eccentric man, often exaggerates everything and be aggressive.

Eric Andre quotes below will tell you how impressive his acts. He is a professional comedian. During his career, this comedian has learned and got inspired by many comedians. He is an open-minded person, so it is easy for him to develop his unique sense of humor.

Eric Andre Quotes

 “I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don’t exist yet.”
– Eric Andre

 “Dan Curry is the funniest guy in the world. I can sit in a room with him for hours, and he’s just cracking me up constantly. And Kitao is the next Terry Gilliam. A lot of comedy directors are just comedic writers, but they don’t have any sense of aesthetic or visual vocabulary.”
– Eric Andre

 “I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.”
– Eric Andre

 “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.”
– Eric Andre

 “From ‘Chappelle’s Show’ to ‘Tosh.0,’ there’s so much race comedy. It’s overdone.”
– Eric Andre

 “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.”
– Eric Andre

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

‘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. It redefined what I thought you could do with a TV show.”
– Eric Andre

 “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.”
– Eric Andre

 “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.”
– Eric Andre

 “I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida – the worst place on earth.”
– Eric Andre

 “I loved ‘Space Ghost’ when I was in college.”
– Eric Andre

 “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.”
– Eric Andre

 “When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people generally say Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, or Richard Pryor. Redd Foxx gets left out a lot.”
– Eric Andre

“I think journaling is a key to success. You can set clear goals for yourself. You can start noticing repetitive behavior patterns and see the type of things that keep bothering you, and then you can have a bird’s eye view of it.”

– Eric Andre

“I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.”

– Eric Andre

“I’ve always been obsessed with bad, awkward television and bad public access. Before YouTube, it was a treat coming across that stuff. When I moved to New York, I used to love watching public access late at night.”

– Eric Andre

“First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don’t remember the venue; I just remember it was the last stop on the A train. It was, like, the Far Rockaways, Queens, and it was an audience of, like, three people.”

– Eric Andre

“ABC is owned by Disney, so it’s a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites.”

– Eric Andre

“I don’t think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a ‘Tonight Show’ kind of thing. But I’m open to whatever is done well. I don’t have any agenda. I’m not like Fugazi – I’m not trying to be just so punk rock until I die. Whatever is funny is good.”

– Eric Andre

“Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows from the ’90s. It’s like, ‘Why do such a bland corporate aesthetic when the sky’s the limit with what you can do?”

– Eric Andre

“I was a class clown since second grade.”

– Eric Andre

“I don’t really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.”

– Eric Andre

“‘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.”

– Eric Andre

“It’s funny – almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two friends Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer. And my two friends that are doing the best in comedy, the most successful friends I have, are Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer.”

– Eric Andre

After reading the quotes, maybe you did not expect him to be a not so confident person. However, that is the real character of Eric Andre. He used to be a musician – Jazz musician. He started this career by studying at Berklee College of Music. Although he did not continue his music career, this talent must have affected his creativity

Eric Andre quotes state many things about life, art, and critics. His pranks and sketches often bring us to laugh, and so are his quotes. If you like the quotes, you might want to start to watch his show. Eric Andre has consistently proven his braveness in presenting shows. He keeps creating creative art through his appearances and tour.