Quotes About Comedy

Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.

Comedy illuminates. And it unifies people, it's not as polarizing as shows with specific political agendas.

Nobody knew I could do comedy until I started Polaroid.

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they're beautiful things when they're done.

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you're one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It's just to test your bars.

I'm not a political comic.

I have a couple of jokes that are politically oriented, but it just sickens me to do them.

There's no getting around it - I am a politically incorrect, racially insensitive, culturally controversial comic, but at least I'm self-aware.

My audience expects me to push the limits, to be politically incorrect. I do that because for me, that's the only place where the fun is, when I get to push the boundaries and make people laugh at things that they probably didn't want to laugh at.

I'm a comedian, not a politician.

The Earth will be around for a long time before you have a funnier president than Obama. He has a stand-up's cadence and the awareness and ability to make jokes about himself before comedians can. That's a page almost every politician should try to take from his book.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.

I just find anyone who's arrogant and pompous is always the funniest for me.

The comedy world is like a small pond; we all know each other.

I've said on one of my shows that I'd like to marry the character Amy Pond, not the actress who plays her.

I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me he wanted to go out on this chat show we were on to laugh with me. Now he's ruined it. I can't make another joke about him.