Quotes About Comedy

My cousin Dwayne was really the first person who was like, 'You're funny, man!' I was like, 'OK, sure.'

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too.

I crack myself up. Even I don't know what I'm going to say next.

Yes, I've been down the pike and back. And through the years, I've heard different songs with scatting in it, and it was - always cracked me up as kind of a funny style of music, you know? When I did it, it kind of cracked me up as a comedy kind of routine.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

No matter what happens in the future, I still want to be like Carlin, like Dangerfield where I can hit a stage when I'm 85 and still here people cracking up.

I keep cracking jokes a lot.

If you are cracking a joke on me and in counter cannot take a joke when I am cracking on you, then, you stay away from me.

I love Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' - he's very good. And the 'Modern Family' cast just cracks me up.

Colin Cunningham just cracks me up.

I think I'm accidentally funny more so than thinking of it as a craft. I'm in awe of those comedians that know how to hit it again and again and again.

I don't sit at home and craft a joke.

I still like to make crank calls.

When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.

I wonder if Shakespeare ever had to write a play in 10 days while suffering from jet-lag? Probably. It would explain why his comedies are so crap.

As a comic and as an actor, I think you've got to be partially crazy.

Adversity creates comedy.

With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.

John Sullivan's scripts were always very funny, and cast and crew got on well.

All those Bob Hope specials made me cringe when I was a kid.

I wanted a half-hour, single-camera comedy with a great lead where I could be No. 2 or 3 on the call sheet, and it was going to get on the air. Those were my criteria, and they sent me 'Cougar Town.' I read it and loved it.

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.