Comedy Quotes

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

I'm a comedy geek so anything comedy related, whether that's standup shows, improv shows, I'm all over that. That's my favorite way to be entertained always.

If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.

You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

IT'S funny. It doesn't work the other way round !

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.

It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.

One of the coolest things was that, in 2007, I got to go to Iraq with Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, and Horatio Sanz. We went over there to do some comedy shows with the U.S.O.

When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career.

It was sort of the first movie [The Specials ] where I really got to let my comedy freak flag fly. And everybody in it made me laugh really hard. I wish more people had seen it.

There's an argument that maybe [The Grinder] was better suited for streaming or cable. I don't know. I still like to think there's a place for smart, subversive, original comedies on networks.

William Devane was amazing [ in The Grinder] - that we were able to reinvent an acting legend as a comedy star - that's very gratifying.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

Funny thing about faith ... it goes a lot faster than it comes.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

She sleeps alone at last.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

I like girls who are funny with a warped sense of humor.

I always loved working in comedy.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.