Comedy Quotes

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

A sleeping bag is a tortilla for a human.

To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

I developed several comedy phone calls.

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

Two things are not debatable: eroticism, and comedy. If you don't think it's sexy, or funny, there's no way I can change your mind.

Gentlemen, include me out.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.

Here's a picture of me with REM. That's me in the corner.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor, you can't go - I guess there's forms of it.

Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

It's funny what they say about men in uniform - how people think women just can't resist 'em. Fact is, I think we're just pleased to see a man groomed, bathed, and wearing clothes that fit him.