Comedy Quotes

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?

I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.

I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care, I just do comedy.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.

For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

I think back to back romantic comedies are good for black film.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

I wasn't in the drama department, but I auditioned anyway and he not only cast me but also included a few sketches that I wrote, which really sparked my pursuit of comedy.

I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.

People don't come to a comedy club simply to hear someone's thoughts, no matter how profound.

If you're funny, you can find a stage to get on. If you're good, you'll start to get work and eventually get paid.

Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

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

My favorite movies are all romantic comedies. I love the romantic comedies. I'd still have to say Pretty Woman. I still think that it's one of the best ever.

I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.

Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.

I was in this restaurant and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver.

The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.

In my mind, I'm hilarious, so I would love to do some comedy. But, I'm not exactly sure my perspective is a healthy one.

Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

You know who does have a funny bone in her body? Your mom every night for a dollar.

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.