Comedy Quotes

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

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.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

More people are going out to comedy shows than they were before.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.