Comedy Quotes

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.

I think comedy is on an organic upsurge right now because when I started, it was 1978 at The Comedy Store and Letterman had just stopped emceeing his morning show.

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.

I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we would go to a good improv comedy instructor.

It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.

I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.

Comedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama.

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

You'll laugh at the comedy of errors that is my life.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

There are things that I won't joke about, but it's not because I don't think they're funny or they can't be made funny. It's just that they don't fit my particular skill set.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

I'm funny because I'm funny. And there's more to offer.

You know what's funny about movies? You can watch one, and then you watch it again at a different stage in your life, and you understand different messages from the same film.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.

I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

When you talk about modern comedy I think there's a big three right now, and that's Louis C.K., Bill Burr, and Jim Jefferies. I don't think anyone's doing it better than those three guys.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.

I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like.

That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.