Comedy Quotes

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.

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.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.

Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

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. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.