Quotes by Michael Schur

Michael Schur

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it’s a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

Errors

Levels

Trying

Amy Poehler did a really cute thing, [] [her son] said his prayers before he went to sleep that she was going to win [a Golden Globe] and when she got home she put [the trophy] in his bedroom. So when he woke up, he was like “Yes I did it, I did it”. He was so excited, he felt like he had somehow engendered the trophy into existence, which is so cute.

Cute

Prayer

Sleep

And personally I will say that Amy Poehler deserves about a thousand trophies and so one is a good start, and I’m hoping this is the first of a thousand. That’s my personal hope.

Amy

Firsts

Trophies

As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, ‘Oh, there’s a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.’

Ideas

People

Tv Shows

Despite the insanity of using whether you would want to have a beer with someone as a legitimate reason for voting for or against them, I always felt that is indicative of a massive problem in politics: It matters as much what your personality is as how smart you are or how good you are at your job. That is a huge, huge problem. A lot of people who are very smart or very good at their jobs are not people I would want to ever have a beer with – but I would want them making massive policy decisions with huge implications for the future of the planet.

Beer

Jobs

Smart

Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things – the way they pronounce words, or what they call soda, or how people drive. It’s a huge country, and there’s all these strange pockets of behavioral patterns that social anthropologists could spend lifetimes researching and reporting on.

Cities

Country

Usa

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn’t mean the people have to be mean. I’ve never liked mean-spirited comedy.

Mean

People

Purpose

I am not on Facebook. I’m not on Instagram. I only use Twitter, which I wish I didn’t.

Instagram

Use

Wish

I find Billy Eichner to be hilarious, though I also imagine that for many, a little goes a long way. Billy provides a kind of comedy the Parks and Recreations show did not have – an insane person screaming at everyone, and our job going forward, as it is with all of our characters, is to develop him and make him more three dimensional.

Character

Insane

Long

I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

Pure

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Amy

Beer

Book

Brother

Character

Cheer

Cities

Country

Couple

Crumbling

Curse

Cute

Decision

Different

Doors

Errors

Firsts

Fun

Goal

Hips

Ideas

Insane

Instagram

Jobs

Kicks

Laughing

Leopards

Levels

Long

Mean

Motivation

News

Nuts

Objectivity

Opposites

People

Plot

Prayer

Pure

Purpose

School

Selfish

Sleep

Smart

Sometimes

Thinking

Trophies

Trying

Tv Shows

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Quotes by Michael Schur

Michael Schur

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it’s a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

And personally I will say that Amy Poehler deserves about a thousand trophies and so one is a good start, and I’m hoping this is the first of a thousand. That’s my personal hope.

As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, ‘Oh, there’s a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.’

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn’t mean the people have to be mean. I’ve never liked mean-spirited comedy.

I am not on Facebook. I’m not on Instagram. I only use Twitter, which I wish I didn’t.

I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

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