Comedy Quotes

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

Keep a stiff upper chin.

I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.

I can't claim to feel like I've been under some man's thumb in comedy. I've sort of always done my own thing for better or worse, and have been lucky enough to be able to perform ever since.

I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Entourage [movie] really is established as a genre unto itself, much like the thriller or the horror movie or the comedy. And those things trend.

Id like to do a romantic comedy like Notting Hill, which is one of my favorite movies.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

Azhar Usman is very funny, deeply spiritual, and extremely hairy. He's like Zach Galifianakis meets Deepak Chopra-and funnier than you'd expect that combination to be.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

One of the coolest things was that, in 2007, I got to go to Iraq with Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, and Horatio Sanz. We went over there to do some comedy shows with the U.S.O.

When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career.

It was sort of the first movie [The Specials ] where I really got to let my comedy freak flag fly. And everybody in it made me laugh really hard. I wish more people had seen it.

There's an argument that maybe [The Grinder] was better suited for streaming or cable. I don't know. I still like to think there's a place for smart, subversive, original comedies on networks.

William Devane was amazing [ in The Grinder] - that we were able to reinvent an acting legend as a comedy star - that's very gratifying.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

Funny thing about faith ... it goes a lot faster than it comes.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

She sleeps alone at last.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

I like girls who are funny with a warped sense of humor.

I always loved working in comedy.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.

Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along.

I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.

I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

I would say, when it comes to comedy, I think Matthew Broderick was great.