Comedy Quotes

Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

As a news person, you can't spend all your time responding to a Comedy Central star. It's not what we do.

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.

Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.

I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise it just becomes long and rambling indulgent.

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

Comedy is important! When youre having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.

I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.

Maybe in 10 years,I'll only be doing "classical" comedy. Or crashing my car into trees.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I was an altar boy as a kid. And the answer is no.

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

I'm a compulsive everything.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.

Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.

I think parenthood is just ripe for comedy. This just happens to be told from the perspective of women.

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.

I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.

When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city

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