Comedy Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

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

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

I was always funny, but I didn't know being funny was a gift.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

I'd like to try different genres: comedy, period drama, rom-com, action.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'

I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the obstacles that are in the way for that to happen.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

I haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again, in that it's everywhere, and it's great to see.

One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.