Comedy Quotes

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.

On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than I listen to 90 percent of all comedy albums, so I think I love it?

Beloved King of Comedy.

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

Comedies are often half-hour programs and then drama and action series are often an hour.

So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.

It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it.

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

I look a bit like him.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Once you let go of your morals, everything becomes funny

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they hate me?"

It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can ruin their best take. But sometimes it's very hard not to.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.