Comedy Quotes

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.

When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.

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

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

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.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.