Jermaine Fowler Quotes

I could never lie to someone to benefit myself, so telemarketing was something I was terrible at!

Dave Chappelle – he‘s one of my favorite icons. I can’t think of anyone who‘s funnier.

Broadcast TV has a very classy but old-fashioned way of doing television. That’s what it’s always going to be. But you‘ve still got to introduce young talent and ideas and shows to the masses. That’s the way you build a bigger and younger audience, introducing younger writers, comics, TV shows to viewers.

I’ve always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn’t want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.

My parents argued a lot. It was pretty tumultuous at times.

I was always causing trouble in school. Doing impressions of Bart Simpson, interrupting class – I liked the attention and entertaining people.

I want to star in an action-comedy, like ‘The Rock‘ or ‘Con Air.’ Those are the movies I wanted to star in since I was a kid.

When I got nominated class clown in school, I remember my mom said, ‘Don’t be no clown.’ So I went to my vice principal in my school and said, ‘Can we change this to just the funniest?’

I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.

We can all agree that the best part of ‘Black Panther‘ was his female army, the Dora Milaje. They made the movie.

I grew up watching people and companies commercialize Black History Month. I watched old McDonald‘s commercials, and they’d blacken up the commercials for 28 days then go back to normal in March. It got annoying to me.

I felt so contained at home. I always really felt like I couldn’t be myself at home, so I was always quiet. I remember I used to sit in my room and listen to Bone Thugs and close the door.

‘Crashing‘ was my first scripted TV gig.

I’m a movie fanatic. I watch probably four movies a day – not because I’m a lunatic, but because I just love movies.

My friend gave me a VHS tape of Eddie Murphy‘s ‘Raw.’ I watched it so many times, I fell in love with it. I would watch it every day, just picking it apart. And then I started doing open mics around Maryland and D.C.: that’s where I’m from. And I haven‘t stopped since.

I like whatever I’m doing to have depth.

I’ve never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

Humor and comedy have always been the best way to deal with real life issues and just reality.

Spider-Man is supposed to be ‘neighborhood friendly,’ but I’ve never seen that dude at a Black Lives Matter march.

I just love pranks, man. They’re great. I don’t understand why people don’t do ’em more often.

I see myself touring internationally – everywhere, every theater, every arena – and putting out stand-up comedy specials until I can’t even stand no more. Even then, I’ll probably do my comedy special in a hospital bed.

Comics are just mirrors. People can either laugh at the reflection or be disgusted by it.

Society, they look down on teenage moms and dads, but I think those people are just jealous because they’ll never know what it’s like to be raised by someone who’s still being raised.

I was the black kid in school who’d skate and wrestle, who was really into outer space and botany and kung fu and hip-hop. I was into everything.

I love comedy, but more than that, I love comedy that has a message and that has some stakes.

I’m pretty much a comic that dwells on what happened to me instead of what’s happening to me.

You can’t teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.

The millennial generation is very vocal.

I’ve been poor most of my life.

I grew up in a very, very diverse neighborhood back home in Maryland. And when I see that on TV shows, it makes me want to watch it, personally. I just gravitate towards that.

I have a lot of energy, and as you get to know me, you will quickly learn that! I channel my energy into my acting, my writing, everything.

Man, that’s all I can do, just be myself.

I’m a ’90s kid. I can’t wait until the day when more people start appreciating the ’90s.

I’m a comic; we get hecklers every night! It’s really just part of the job.

I believe the more you talk about everyday issues, the more it helps other people deal with it themselves.

‘V for Vendetta’ is an amazing movie, and it had an obvious message, but it was done so perfectly. I got out of the movie, and I wanted to march so hard. I wanted to be an activist.

In Hollywood, it’s not what you know but who you know.

Flying is just such a hassle. If I had a million dollars, I would teleport.

When you chase a dream, and no one understand or has your back except seven friends from high school and your grandma, it’s not going to be easy.

I don’t do anything for press.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

CBS garners a predominately older white audience, and by having a show like ‘Superior Donuts‘ on their weekly programming, it distorts what people are used to seeing in a positive way. It’s a show I think was necessary.

I did my first set at a talent show, and I couldn’t finish because the judges didn’t like my jokes. They were ‘offensive.’