Comedy Quotes

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I'm able to compete in?

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

I can work every day of the year. TV is easy. My call's at 8:30 a.m. I'd like to break out of the comedy thing and take a shot at something serious like theater. The off-season allows me to do movies, but I'm not tired of TV yet. There's nothing like it. I've got the best of both worlds.

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.

Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.