Comedy Quotes

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Comedy is second nature for me.

When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said "But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously," and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.