Quotes About Comedy

I loved 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan.

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

I have the curse of thinking funny!

Comedy is here to bring joy to the world, whether you want to hear the curse words or not.

It's part of the gift and the curse of coming behind my brother. I'm not afforded the luxury of just taking a set casual, taking the night off. Because if I bomb, it's, 'Oh, he's not funny - he's just doing it because of his brother.'

When people tell me to do a clean show, I'm like, 'Guys, I don't even understand your thoughts anymore.' What, you can't say a curse word? Nobody thinks that way!

I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.

Don't bring your kids to my show, and I won't come to your house and cuss.

We've always been interested in the commentary on politics and society and how comedy always sort of cuts that with a nice laugh, and the perspective it brings.

I laugh at myself on a daily basis.

I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show.'

'The Daily Show' was amazing because I learned so much.

I started 'The Daily Show' when I was 22. I was going to class at Long Beach.

We're pretty down-to-earth at 'The Daily Show.' Everyone is pretty sane. We don't party crazy.

As a kid who illegally streamed 'The Daily Show' it has always been a goal of mine.

I don't get much respect from the industry in general, but that's OK. I didn't get into it for respect. I got into it to make people laugh, and that's what I'm doing. That's all I give a damn about.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

When in a movie like 'Housefull' you have to create comedy out of falling on a glass table or jumping from huge heights, it's all action, but packaged as comedy. Here you don't just have to perform a heavy-duty action sequence, but you have to make it look funny and that is really difficult. But it's fun... and I really enjoy it.

I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.