Comedy Funny Quotes

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

Comedy is rarely funny.

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

You exaggerate your own reactions.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.

I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?

How the hell do you wake up dead?

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

You'll never call him Fifi again.

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.

When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.