Comedy Quotes

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.

It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.

That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.

The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it. Everybody has the capacity for change.

There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.

Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny.

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.

I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

People want to consume what you're putting out there, and you can create a really strong following of fans and admirers, and people who are invested in your career and your comedy.

The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.

Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.

I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.

In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.

Ive predominantly done comedy over the years.

To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.

The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.

I don't understand why people don't remember my name.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.