Home > Author > Chris Gethard
1 " My therapist and I even have a joke about it: shit is truly fucked up when I start threatening to take a road trip. "
― Chris Gethard
2 " I'm unable to tell you what it feels like to be "a little" mad. My emotions work as if controlled by a light switch. I'm either fine or I'm out of control. I once spilled a container of thumbtacks and got as angry at myself as I did when I screwed up my relationship with my high school sweetheart. If I'm under the impression that there are Golden Grahams in my cupboard, then realize that there in fact are none, there's a high probability I'll be as sad as I was at my grandfather's funeral.In other words, my reactions aren't in proportion to the things I'm reacting to. It's something I've been working on with a very lovely shrink for the past few years.But against the 4Skins one day, all that hard word went out the window. "
― Chris Gethard , A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
3 " ...beautiful things often happen, and that the most beautiful things are often simple. "
4 " If I had to give you a proper description, I would say a camel cricket is basically a cross between a grasshopper and a dragon and that its natural habitat is the nightmares of men. "
5 " As luck would have it, I happened to have a top hat that I previously wore to my junior prom. "
6 " Friends and compatriots remind you that when your world burns you should stand right next to the flame. "
― Chris Gethard , Lose Well
7 " It makes sense that your most unique ideas feel terrifying, because they are creatively risky and also expose the inner workings of your brain. "
8 " Spend enough time adrift and feeling alone in your pursuits and you’ll eventually cobble together a support system of like-minded people. "
9 " The melodrama of what you’re doing cannot outweigh the necessity of your hard work. "
10 " I learned one of the great illuminating lessons of my life at that job though: love can make something feel easy, even when it’s not. "
11 " It wasn’t easy, but after a lifetime of anger, and a college career that only saw me grow more and more out of control, for the first time I’d decided to get help and try to heal. I gave up drinking. I made it a point to actively search for the positive side of everything. And perhaps as a result, after years of self-doubt and self-destructive behavior, I was finally dropping all of my internal defenses and starting to look at all the possibilities life offered. "
12 " Failure is your friend. Winning is your goal, or losing is your goal. You never want to land in that sad middle ground where you haven’t failed. Where you did nothing to embarrass yourself, but didn’t do anything to distinguish yourself either. That’s the difference between winning and playing not to lose. "
13 " If you’re not feeling scared, you’re not growing. If there’s no room to grow, then there’s no room to breathe. Things that can’t breathe die, even ambitions. "
14 " Ray Romano gets a standing ovation. That’s great for him. That’s not what I want, though. I want to tell you a joke and have one audience member quietly reassure me that I am funny. "
15 " Comedy used to demoralize me on a near daily basis. Now I only bomb and question everything once or twice a month. "
16 " Pretending everything was okay all the time, when life is so odd and often so harsh, seemed more damaging than not. "
17 " I’ve never been the funniest comedian. Not even close. But no one can deny I’ve been a comedian. "
18 " Because podcasting allows for free-form conversations, for rambling. Unlike television, or the written word, it doesn’t need to be over-edited or controlled. People who like podcasts tend to like things that are raw, unedited, and even meandering more than they like tightly scripted projects. This idea, by its definition, can’t be predicted "
19 " I don’t think you can change the world. But I do think you can change your world, in subtle ways, small ways, ways that remain internal and known only to you. "
20 " we all got back in the car and drove home, safe and sound, able to chase our dreams for another day on our sad but beautiful terms. "
