A biography for Josh Bluehasn’t been written yet.
“I used to do a lot of pratfalls on stage. And I tell you, when a guy with cerebral palsy falls down on stage on purpose - nobody ever knows if it was real or not.”
“I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is the mortar. You piece it all together and have a certain flow to it.”
“Obviously, I can't get away from having a disability, but sometimes when you have a beard and long hair, people can't figure it out.”
“I think what makes me so appealing is the audience doesn't expect me to be so ruthless.”
“There's a lot of preconceived ideas of what disability is, what a disabled person should be like, and I try to throw that in your face.”
“I started out not doing jokes about my disability. I just talked about my life. But I've found that if I don't broach the subject, people are kind of like, 'C'mon, talk about it.' They want to hear about it.”
“Soccer is an endless source of material. I mean, take my Paralympic teammates. It's a mix of 12 goofy, disabled guys and when we come together, we just laugh at each other.”
“I've always been a huge fan of Chris Rock.”
“I enjoy horror movies.”
“All the traveling means I'm constantly writing and testing new jokes.”
“Soccer is the international language. If you bring a soccer ball with you to any other country, you can make friends instantly.”
“Denver is home to me. It's my everything. It's where my children are, where my lady lives, where I have my house.”
“I feel like every person has a disability in some way. Whether you're dyslexic or Republican or whatever.”
“My thing is I'm not very P.C., but I'm tactful. I try not to offend anyone.”
“But the good thing about performing every night is I don't have any excuse not to try something new every day.”
“I set out to be a comedian, and then the spokesperson thing is kind of just something that came along with it.”
“No matter how good of an actor I am, I can't un-act having cerebral palsy.”
“I'm a one-take kind of guy.”
“That's my viewpoint; I just tackle the world, whatever comes at me.”
“Somebody will occasionally give me a line or a tag or something like that. It's rare that someone will give me a whole joke that I can use.”