Comedy Quotes

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

Everybody that you can think of that does comedy, I have met or worked with almost all of them.

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

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If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

I don't just try to be funny.

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.

I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.

I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

Comedy has been my way to reconcile with the world. I didn't really set out to do this, but comedy has served as my outlet to address my issues I have with this crazy world.

I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

Comedy is rarely funny.

Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

It's funny because I consider myself a musical scavenger. What that means to me is that I usually avoid feeding on the fresh meat. I kinda go for the meat that's kinda been forgot for a while.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

[the Ghost Team] is an ensemble comedy. It's about people who are searching for meaning in their lives, and they end up doing this stupid thing after they're inspired by one another.

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm.

It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

I'm a big comedy nerd, so I'm always looking for the chance to be funny.

My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.

There are really funny alternative comics and really funny straight comics who write and perform traditionally.

I also try to think of ways to articulate the joke more economically.

As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy.

I don't want to do 20 minutes on Donald Trump. I want to do 10 minutes and move on. I wouldn't even do that with a live show, because I don't want it to feel like "An Evening Of Political Comedy."

Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.

Donald Trump announced today he is running for president of the United States. Traditionally that means six more weeks of comedy.