Comedy Quotes

Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.

Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.

We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

[Robert Smigel] is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches.He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.

During the rests - pray.

The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.

Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

I had a chicken finger that was so big, it was a chicken hand.

I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.

I tried to freshen up a room, so I held a Certs in front of a fan.

Someone came too sooner.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now!

I think the second you think that you're funny is when you stop being funny.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures

Every week for me was the same audience, and every week they heckled me. The better I got at comedy, the better the audience was at heckling me. But it helped me with my joke writing.

he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

I find it so funny that people find me so interesting.

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about to attack them.

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

I had never been to second base.

Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.