Comedy Quotes

I think Hamlet is a very funny play - Hamlet is riddled with wit.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever.

It's funny how the history of Jeb Bush is going to be rewritten.

I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US. Eddie Murphy blew me away with his film Delirious.

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

My background is in musical comedy.

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.

Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine.

It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.

The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

So I kept it to myself. Then some of my classmates started to come down to the comedy club, taking a girl out, and they started finding out I was a stand-up comedian.

Not funny ha ha, funny weird.

With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.

Uncyclopedia isn't funny anymore.

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

If someone took the 'F' letter off me, I'd be ucked.

Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you’ve come to expect from Jessica Alba.

When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper."

I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

Comedy has been crossing the country with remarkable speed way before the Internet, social media, even cable TV.

A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

It's always funny to me when people meet me. They really think I'm from the East coast off top. When they get to talkin' to me, they go "Oh no, she's sooooo Southern"

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan base was.

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.