Comedy Quotes

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer 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 think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

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.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director.

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.