Quotes About Comedy

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

Making 'Caddyshack' was like an exercise in controlled chaos.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

There's nothing more powerful than stand-up. Crushing with your own material, with your own energy, controlling an audience: There's no better high. It's awesome.

I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.

I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.

The number one job for me is to make people laugh. If I can also make people think, then that's a cool thing.

Comedy is a cool thing, because, at least in my experience, if you're good at it and people know, they'll find out about you.

Sarah Cooper sounds like a character on 'The O.C.,' who was written out in season two, and it's like she moved into my body and gentrified my whole personality.

I think being funny was a coping mechanism because I was always the new kid in school.

Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt it. The problem is they're a lot bigger than us, so people think we're copying them.

I'd always do bits on street corners like Richard Pryor's Mudbone character. And my friends kept telling me, You could make money doing that.'

I like the idea of getting money from corporations to do funny bits as long as they don't meddle.

When I do jokes that maybe are seen as social commentary, I research them to the nth degree. I probably do more research than I do actual joke writing. I want to make sure what I'm saying is correct.

Comedy is counseling.

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

They say Ant and Dec are a double act, but they are just presenters. They read off an Autocue and they don't do gags, so that doesn't count.

I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended.

ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.