Comedy Quotes

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

Comedy is music.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

I'm fascinated by comedy.

I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.