Comedy Quotes

A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'

I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.

Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy.

What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the obstacles that are in the way for that to happen.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

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.

One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.

I haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again, in that it's everywhere, and it's great to see.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.

The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.

I don't understand why people don't remember my name.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.