Comedy Quotes

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.

Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter''s about butter carving in Iowa.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

Good comedy is ageless.

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

Comedy is music.

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.