Comedy Quotes

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

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 wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.