Quotes About Comedy

I think with drama, at least for me, my process, there's a lot of thought. I do a lot of back story. I listen to a lot of music. I'm very committed to a process when it comes to drama, but with comedy, I think it's really about letting loose.

If you think how many female comics there are compared to how many male comics there are, I think there are quite a few female comics on the TV.

Honestly, one of the reasons I wanted to do a comedy next was that I just kept thinking, 'I don't want to chase the next 'Breaking Bad,' because honestly, there may never be one.' I couldn't imagine any other drama comparing. And I just wanted to laugh.

My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that.

I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

I take comedy very seriously, and I feel very competitive.

A lot of men are competitive about being funny.

The rules of comedy are, don't complain, it's a brilliant job. You complain, and you're seen as losing touch with reality.

Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.

The days are long. I'm not complaining, but it's a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.

I want to star in an action-comedy, like 'The Rock' or 'Con Air.' Those are the movies I wanted to star in since I was a kid.

When I play 'Newhart' in concert, it always gets a hand, right from the very beginning. To me, 'Newhart' is a hit.

When I'm performing for 4,000, 5,000 people, it's a show. It's a rock n' roll concert.

The first condition for comedy is that if you laugh at your own jokes, others won't laugh. You have to say something funny very seriously.

My whole act is confession.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.

Conflict is entertaining and it's the stuff of drama - or comedy - but too much conflict, or conflict that's at too high a pitch can get annoying.

I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.