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
art guitar drawing
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.
Is it possible to be totally partial?
people laughing stuff
I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.
art department interiors
Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?
book writing pages
I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.
book islands desert
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
real might holograms
Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.
home air degrees
I turned my air conditioner the other way around and it got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't understand it. It was supposed to be 80 degrees out today.' I said, oops
men feet shoes
I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using?
home cutting light
In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'
thinking comedy express-yourself
Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
stars lying night
The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?
home heaven energy
If heat rises, then heaven must be hotter than hell
funny humor way
I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.