Comedy Quotes

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

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

I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

Did you write the words, or the lyrics?

It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.

I'm gonna pray for him.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

My town's quite small and you kinda recognize everyone when you see them, so I definitely get funny looks from people.

If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.