Comedy Quotes

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

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

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.