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
phones ears mouths
Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.
funny humor thinking
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
harder run supposed system
We have run the hydro system harder than it was supposed to be run this year.
happens
It happens so fast, and I've been doing it so long that it's unconscious,
humorous school college
I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.
grateful careers imagination
I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.
time watches spares
I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.
statistics spots made
43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
branches twigs spit
You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.
lasts week bicycle
Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.
humor territory lost
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
narrators used mime
I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.
humor metaphor simile
A metaphor is like a simile.
snakes vests arms
Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests.