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Reggie Watts Biography

Reginald Lucien Frank Roger "Reggie" Watts (born March 23, 1972) is a German-American musician, singer, beatboxer, actor, and comedian. His improvised musical sets are created using only his voice, a keyboard, and a looping machine. Watts refers to himself as a "disinformationist", aiming to disorient his audiences. He appeared on the IFC series Comedy Bang! Bang!, which began airing in 2012. He currently leads the house band for The Late Late Show with James Corden and presents the US version of Taskmaster.

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Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

Careers, Interested, Laugh, Making, People, Thinking

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.

Fun, Joke, Jokes, Listener, Thinking, Totally

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

Anthropologist, Anthropologists, Self, Taught

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

Factual, Improvising, Piano, Sincere, Song

Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's completely not true. If you want to create really boring, frustrated human beings, then yeah, cut out art and science.

Art, Cutting, Music, Program, School, Yeah

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

Art, Create, Experimenting, Idea, Ideas, Machines

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

Creating, Essentially, Ideas, Musical

If I'm improvising and I'm not doing well it's because I'm not listening very well. Either I'm overly concerned with something or I'm drifting or maybe I'm too stoned but I'm not getting a clear signal.

Clear, Drifting, Listening, Overly, Signals, Stoned

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

Absurd, Like, Line, Lines, Ride, Sincere

Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

Beginning, Enlightenment, Letting Go, Self, Training

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

Couple, Italian, Learn, Like, People, Weird

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

Behavior, Like, Longer, Patterns, Set, Settling

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.

Create, Mind, Play, Plays, Want, Work

The things that are reflected back at us, often times, are appealing to a base instinct that's about response as opposed to reflection. So for me, it's important to turn on a piece of information that might interest people, you know, that might interest them in pursuing or researching maybe, or even just thinking about it in that moment as I'm performing it.

Thinking, Reflection, People, Base, Interest, Pursuing

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.

Spheres, Infinite, Illusion, Leading, Sphere, Plane

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

Capacity, Fascination, Giving, Science, Understanding

Whatever encourages people to become more interested in who they are and discovering who they are, as opposed to just accepting what people or things are saying what they are. That's fascinating to me.

People, Accepting, Discovering, Become, Fascinating

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

Audience, Good Times, Having A Good Time, Long, Time

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

Always Trying, Different, Peoples, Perspective, Perspectives, Things

Common knowledge, but important nonetheless

Common, Common Knowledge, Important, Knowledge

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