Steven Wright
Steven Wright
Steven Alexander Wrightis an American comedian, actor, writer, and an Oscar-winning film producer. He is known for his distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical, and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth6 December 1955
CountryUnited States of America
cares couple missing nobody
If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
want politician
I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.
running ice frozen
Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.
crazy matter logic
What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.
elephants pet comedy
My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
stage exaggeration expressive
My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.
imagination my-friends my-imagination
I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.
birthday moving tired
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.
museums arms comedy
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
cat half half-life
Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?
school color naked
My school colors were clear. We used to say, 'I'm not naked, I'm in the band.
emotion
I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.
wish lasts firsts
I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.
boston years phoenix
I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'