Comedy Quotes

I like comedy when its mixed with action, it's just so much fun to do comedy with a bit of action, its fun to watch and also so much fun to do.

I only got into comedy to get laid

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected.

I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.

It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics.

Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise it would be quite cynical.

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do Parks and Recreation; a big fun character.

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

Theres nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it's not so much trying to be funny, it's trying to be real in a messed up context. That's comedy to me.

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.

I didn't notice him coming, but he didn't seem to be looking for an autograph signature

Figure out what to do, then take a nap.

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.

I'm really attracted to authors who take on really tricky material with a very open mind and take a subject matter that you wouldn't think would be a comedy.

I got mugged. And they got my knapsack with my comedy notebook in it. So if anybody see two cholos bombing at the Funny Bone chain, that would be them. Just give me a jingle.

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

I used to see Jim [Carrey] in comedy clubs and tell him 'This isn't going to get you anywhere. What you're good at is that nice Jimmy Stewart stuff.' Thank God he never listened.

When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy.