Comedian Steven Wright | Funniest Collection
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Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and 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.
Wright's 1985 comedy album I Have a Pony received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. The album's success landed him an HBO special, in the On Location: series, taped at Wolfgang's in San Francisco, as a live performance, for A Steven Wright Special.
By then Wright had firmly developed a new brand of obscure, laid-back performing and was rapidly building a cultlike following and an onstage persona characterized by an aura of obscurity, with his penchant for non sequiturs and subdued, slow delivery only adding to his mystique. The performance became one of HBO's longest-running and most requested comedy specials and propelled him to great success on the college-arena concert circuit.
In 1989 Wright and fellow producer Dean Parisot won an Academy Award for their 30-minute short film The Appointments of Dennis Jennings. Upon accepting the Oscar, Wright said, "We're really glad that we cut out the other sixty minutes." In 1992 Wright had a recurring role on the television sitcom Mad About You. He also supplied the voice of the radio DJ in film Reservoir Dogs that year. "Dean Parisot's wife Sally Menke is Quentin Tarantino's [film] editor, so when she was editing the movie and it was getting down toward the end where they didn't have the radio DJ yet, she thought of me and told Quentin and he liked the idea," Wright explained in 2009.
In 1995, Wright provided voiceover work for TBS's Disaster Area cartoon block.
After his 1990 comedy special Wicker Chairs and Gravity, Wright continued to do stand-up performances, but was largely absent from television, doing only occasional guest spots on late-night talk shows. In 1999 he wrote and directed the 30-minute short One Soldier, saying it's "about a soldier who was in the Civil War, right after the war, with all these existentialist thoughts and wondering if there is a God and all that stuff."
In 2006 Wright produced his first stand-up special in 16 years, Steven Wright: When the Leaves Blow Away, originally aired on Comedy Central on October 21, 2006. On September 25, 2007, Wright released his second album, I Still Have a Pony, a CD release of the material from When The Leaves Blow Away. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
Wright was ranked as the 15th Greatest Comedian by Rolling Stone in a list of the 50 Greatest Stand-up Comics. His accolades include the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for writing and producing the short film The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (1988) and two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations as a producer of Louie (2010-15). He is known for his supporting role as Leon in the Peabody Award-winning tragicomedy web series Horace and Pete.
Here is a short selection of the best Steven Wright quotes. Enjoy!
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
A cop stopped me for speeding. He said, “Why were you going so fast?” I said, “See this thing my foot is on? It’s called an accelerator. When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole car just takes right off. And see this thing? This steers it.”
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, “Wish you were here.”
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
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Man this guy would be good at Twitter
He in fact has a Twitter lol
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The man would have destroyed Twitter!!😂😂
"If you shoot a mime should you use a silencer?"
Audience: *silence*
Me: dying with laughter.
One of my favorites is still: "So... what's the speed of dark?"
Got to see him live twice both were incredible. Once at the keswick and once at the sands. Hundreds of jokes non stop you only catch like half of them because you're busy laughing
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One of my favorites is still: "Why don't they build the whole plane out of that black box stuff?"
“I bought some powdered water but I don’t know what to add,” is one of the funniest one liners ever
Agreed. I'll bet that a whole chunk of his fans got hooked by that joke. I know it worked for me.
I love his delivery, he always looks and sounds like he’s being forced to say all this against his will
Steven Wright One of the Best!!
I was lucky enough to catch Steven Wright in Cambridge, Massachusetts before he became famous. He was so amazing - never to be forgotten. His (local) political comedy was amazing. I also remember him doing an imitation of a fly! Incredible.
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Before I was born, my grandfather got to see Steven Wright in person in 2004. He was laughing so hard, my dad said he was getting mad so he was mocking him, which made him laugh even harder. Unfortunate my grandfather passed so I didn’t get to hear his view of the story as my dad told me this today.
my favorite all time. Carlin 2nd. awesome he came to your podcast. im surprised he didnt know the genetallia of Jenner.
His "poison ivy on the brain" joke is one of the greatest of all time.
That was hilarious!! I have always loved Steven Write !
Great compilation! Thank you!
2:22 I love the noticeable double laugh
Ohh man haven't laughed 🤣 this much in a long time.
"Some people are afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths."
thanks!
I used to really like Steven Wright's comedy. I still do, but I used to as well.
He is Hilarious! OMG!
Genius
Gotta love a guy who become famous for being the most awkward human being in the world.
I bought a camouflaged shirt..
I can't find it.
I miss him already
@Steve Austin I know, I meant seeing him doing stand up live. Now I gotta quarantine myself.
@Steve Austin I should've clarified that.
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The roads on maps are too wide. If they were actually that wide traffic would collide with the roadside houses, resulting in considerable loss of life.
if you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer
Where is the bit at 7:00 from?
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He’s good in his own wright, 😂
His jokes kinda remind me of Mitch Hedberg.
Mitch reminds most people of Steven. I love them both.
Mitch was definitely influenced by him
Both geniuses in their own right
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i want a tattoo of myself....only taller
This is fucken great, props. I hope you made that
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3:42 Jeffrey Dahmer not laughing
Him and Mitch
This is fun just watching his hairline recede.
Yeah, this is going to be a unpopular opinion but I am not impressed by this and I enjoy deadpan comedy. Sorry
Cool
It seems like a “you had to be there” type thing
Well we can't all have a sense of humour.
Everyone to their own. Honest opinion. Comedy can be funny sometimes!
@@noelegan1208 funny thing , about comedy
Shoot me. Gawd awful