Comedy Quotes

I got everybody on my side through comedy.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

I love doing comedy. It's a lot of fun.

Every few months I'll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.

I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.