Comedy Quotes

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

It's a funny thing no matter who you are when you purchase a flower or a plant, the first thing you ask is how do I keep this plant and keep it growing beautiful. People need the same concern.

Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there - Lee Camp.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.

The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.

I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them.

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

I don't think I'm funny.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since One Eight Seven.

When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not...

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

Funny is when you're serious.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.