Comedy Quotes

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

It’s funny how one summer can change everything.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.

I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

I'm really funny now.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

Men don't hear women.

I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

I'm here today because I hated everything else.

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be laughing for no reason.

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.

I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

Comedy comes from confusion.

Funny how we look for miracles in our lives when our life is one big miracle in itself.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

I enjoy doing these silly little videos, and a lot of stuff online is stuff I actually created for my live comedy shows.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.