Comedy Quotes

I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.

Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

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.

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.

As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful. I think Rupert is really adept at comedy; I think that's where his strength lies.

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

I like grown up comedy.

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

I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.

There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

I'm just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can. I've just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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"

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

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.

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

The reason you often get in comedy is because you're not getting laid.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.