Quotes by Godfrey - Page 1

I'm forever a part of pop culture.
Godfrey / Comedian
Culture
Forever
Pop Culture
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You've got to keep moving, keep creating.
Godfrey / Comedian
Creating
Keep Moving
Moving
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Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.
Godfrey / Comedian
Men
Comedian
Hey
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I am not a model the camera just went off by itself
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Cameras
Models
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Tell your girlfriend or wife you love them everyday. Like I do!
Godfrey / Comedian
Everyday
Girlfriend
Wife
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I can always create new material. That's something I can control.
Godfrey / Comedian
I Can
Materials
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I think there are people living in Walmart dressed up as employees.
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People
Thinking
Walmart
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I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport.
Godfrey / Comedian
Airports
High Heels
Trying
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When my woman kisses me I start dancing like James Brown. Ow! I Feel Good!
Godfrey / Comedian
Dancing
Feel Good
Kissing
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But some people want attention so bad they want you to see them angry at you.
Godfrey / Comedian
Attention
People
Want
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That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.
Godfrey / Comedian
Being Special
Pride
Special
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Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.
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Guy
Racism
White
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Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country!
Godfrey / Comedian
Country
Punishment
Teach
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If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.
Godfrey / Comedian
Comedian
Giving
Mad
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I used to think it was corny to be in love but actually it's corny to lose an awesome woman! Real talk.
Godfrey / Comedian
Corny
Real
Thinking
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You know, the energy I think I was just born with. I think I was just always like that as I kid; I was always real energetic.
Godfrey / Comedian
Kids
Real
Thinking
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I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.
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Class
Illinois
School
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I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is cool.
Godfrey / Comedian
Differences
Thinking
Use
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I love when they show the really gay prisoner in prison shows. He's the cutest inside but you know on the street he would be the ugliest.
Godfrey / Comedian
Gay
Prison
Would Be
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I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.
Godfrey / Comedian
Comic
Kind
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The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.
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Running
Sports
Games
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I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.
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Nice
People
Thinking
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I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.
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Academia
Smart
Thinking
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The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating!
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Cheating
Christian
Hate
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Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?
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Complaining
Want
World
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But there's times when I like to find the strange angles to something. People go, 'I heard a lot of jokes like that, but that's one of the most interesting takes I heard.' That's what I try to do.
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Interesting
People
Trying
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I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd say percentage-wise it's only about 10 to 20 percent the whole year.
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Wise
Men
Nice
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I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.
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Art
Kids
People
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I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much.
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Teacher
Intelligent
Views
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My black friends in America don't believe me. I said, 'Dude, I'm Nigerian American.' 'Word? We thought you were, like, regular black.' What the hell is 'regular black'? Crayola coming out with colors I don't know about?
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America
Believe
Color
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I want to be able to go into a room of aliens and be funny. I don't care who it is. I don't ever want to limit myself to a type of comedy because I don't want to be stuck. I want to be able to make anybody laugh and that's the key for me.
Godfrey / Comedian
Care
Keys
Laughing
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Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?
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Done
Hecklers
Want
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Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.
Godfrey / Comedian
Xenophobia
Country
Native American
Should Have
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I got into trouble a lot in school. They say you're a disturbance in class. You're a distraction, they're moving you around. You never really get rewarded in class for being funny. You're a disturbance. But the funny kid is often witty and clever and quick... they finally get a chance to express themselves when they get out of school.
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Clever
Moving
Witty
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You know what the bodega is? It's the little Latin store, and they try to act like it's a grocery store. It has two aisles. And the guy, he always tries to help me, 'You looking for the bread?' I was like, 'Dude, I can see it right here, alright.' He's like, 'Hey, hey, it's in aisle two.' That's all you got, what are you talking about?
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Latin
Talking
Two
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