Comedy Quotes

We rest our case on the production numbers.

Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

I had my palm read. I wrote something on it first to see if she would read that too.

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

Why are there no "during" pictures?

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you get the guys and gals in there, it's pretty easy to make a funny movie.

Comedy is what keeps us alive.

My mom, she's like Why can't you just do a nice romantic comedy like Jennifer Love Hewitt? And I'm like: Mom, look at me. They just don't put me in those movies.

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me'. Being popular is poison.

I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.

I really have a love for comedy. I can't express it enough.

Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.

About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy...

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

I think people don't understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.

It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.