Comedy Quotes

Every few months I'll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.

I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.