Top 25 Brian Posehn Quotes

My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

I tried playing the drums, and I could play ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by The Cure.

You don’t hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

I really hate Nicki Minaj, but I don’t know why I hate her. I just hate her face, you know? So I went and just looked at some Nicki Minaj videos so I would have a leg to stand on if I ever met someone who liked her.

I don’t exactly fit well in leather pants, so I don’t rock that look. I lost my hair a long time ago, so no hair-metal look, either. I had hair down to my belly button at one point, but I think that was the ’90s.

I don’t know if I was a poseur – I really did love metal, always – but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out ‘Depeche Mode.’

I feel very lucky that I’ve been able to carve out any niche at all in this business. It’s so hard to get into.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was ‘Detroit Rock City.’ I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

Metal is easily my favorite thing – Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth – so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

I used to own a stuffed piranha, but I haven’t seen it in years. I don’t even know what happened to it. Maybe my wife didn’t want it to make the move from the last house to this one.

I didn’t want to write sketch comedy after ‘Mr. Show.’ I felt like, after ‘Mr. Show’, why would you want to go work at any of the other places that existed then?

I’m very excited that my yelling will be featured on the next Evile disc; they’re one of my favorite new-ish bands and, in my not-so-humble opinion, the British saviors of thrash metal.

I have tried to be more relatable, but I won’t be relatable to everybody.

I’m doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They’re faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they’re funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing.

Turns out, there’s not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.

I used to see my friend Harland Williams in a lot of auditions. Then you’d see one of the DeLuise kids because they’re kind of heavy and character-y. You’d just see a lot of the same guys over the years.

I’ve played D&D for years. I’m a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.

I wasn’t even aware that there are different styles of taxidermy, traditional and rogue. I wound up really liking the rogue stuff the most, just because it is more artistic and people can go anywhere with it. That stuff I really liked. Honestly, I would have liked to buy some of those pieces.

I’ve always been really good at staying busy. Even while I’m working, I’m looking at what the next thing is.

There’s a roller derby girl that goes by that name, ‘Nerd Rage,’ and she named herself after my album.

I just felt like I’d rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did – I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn’t want to.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

Juvenile stuff has always made me laugh. It’s what I know.

I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom – I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some of it – but they actually frightened me.