Quotes About Comedy

To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

I can't even pretend to play golf.

There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.

That's what Letterman did. He mocked everything and everyone in show business, even though he was at the top of show business. He was in it but not really of it, and that's one thing I came to love about him. I mean, you can't sit there and interview Cher and pretend you're not in show business, but he managed to pull it off somehow.

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.

Janaan' is very much a romantic comedy. It's light, fluffy and doesn't pretend to be anything serious.

Some people just want to make up the funny things and play pretend.

People ask what my influences are, and for me, it's not always obvious. One of my biggest inspirations was Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders. That's based on how she just does whatever she wants to do, and I love her attitude about everything. It bleeds over into my way of thinking and comedy.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

Over the years, I'd hear Jon Stewart disavow being a journalist and say, 'No, I'm a comedian.' I'd be like, 'Stop pretending. You know you're a journalist.'

The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.

I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

With comedy, I've always had a pretty good sense of what I like and how to execute it well, but drama has its own rules.

If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that's pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren't that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny.

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.

I actually have a pretty good sense of humor.

I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.