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Reggie Watts is an American comedian, musician, and performance artist, known for his unique sense of humor and improvisational skills. He has gained widespread attention for his performances on television and the internet. Born on March 23, 1972, Watts began his career in the 1990s and gained more recognition in the early 2000s.

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“I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.”

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“When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.”

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“I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.”

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“I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.”

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“I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.”

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“When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.”

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“One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.”

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“I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing.”

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“The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid.”

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“Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.”

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“If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.”

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“Everyone speaks stupid.”

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“I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen.”

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“What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.”

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“I want to be able to make a movie.”

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“It's creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.”

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“Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.”

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“I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.”

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“Common knowledge, but important nonetheless”

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“Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.”

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“I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention Ive gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.”

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“Just remember, everything you are is.”

Remember Remembers Everything

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“In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.”

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“Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.”

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“As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time.”

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“We're all just memories of our future selves.”

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“Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.”

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About the Author

Born: March 23, 1972
Known for: Comedian
Quotes: 77

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