Comedy Quotes

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

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.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

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.

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.

It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.