Quotes About Comedy

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

Through eight years, 'How I Met Your Mother' has mastered the art of leading-edge comedy, emotional water-cooler moments, and pop culture catch-phrases.

I was always interested in comedy and pop culture.

So if you see me popping up on 'Cats Does Countdown,' you know Kath needs a bit of money.

Hannibal Buress keeps popping up. His delivery cracks me up. He's smart and funny.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

I bought some pork chops and told the butcher to make them lean. He said, 'Which way?'

I was invited to do an all-female improv festival in Portland called All Jane, No Dick. The person running it asked me if I had a female improv team, and I just said yes and then figured out who I would want to bring with me. We had such a fun show together that we decided that we should keep doing it.

Firstly, I am not a comedian. I have a sense of doing comedy but I am a character artist. If the character in the film is a comedy than I can portray it. But, I am not a comedian.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.

Most of the comedy characters I played have been extensions of my own personality and very similar to Mike Channel. It's a weird eclectic mixture of your genuine character and the character you portray.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

I had not watched 'Friends' and have started watching it now as I have heard so much about it. I am glad I didn't see it before because it brings a lot of positive energy.

I believe in putting out positivity into the world and so comedy is a job where you feel like you're making people happy. It's a very addictive feeling and you want to do it more and more.

It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.

I want to be able to make people laugh as hard as they possibly can, and I really think they need that.