Quotes About Comedy

I have to say that my background in comedy, of performing live, has been such a great foundation for what we do now on camera. I really value having that kind of experience. Because when you're doing comedy shows you're writing your own material and trying it out on people and you know people find funny and don't.

All comedy shows make me feel better about everything.

I'm not a comedy guy. I don't do comedy shows.

I go to a lot of comedy shows.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

I never became a road comic.

A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.

I'm not a broad comic, but I think I can be funny and I think I make people laugh.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

Nobody knows the life of the working comic.

I never wanted to be road comic.

I was born a comic.

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.

Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.

I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.