Comedy Quotes

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

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

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.