Quotes About Comedy

My parents aren't the demographic for a lot of things I do. If I did a stand-up show, and I saw 62-year-old Pakistanis in the crowd, I'd be like, 'I'm gonna bomb.'

Trying to demonstrate good leadership was not our raison d'etre. We're still just trying to make a comedy.

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

You can't deny the truth. And that's what makes smart comedy so good.

In my career spanning over two decades, I've never felt that comedy is a department everybody can excel in because it's an art and only a few are blessed with the talent to entertain.

I don't depend on 'The Kapil Sharma' Show for my living.

Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

Stand-up wasn't a calling. It was more like, 'What can I do that isn't going to make me really depressed?'

Realize that doing comedy is only going to make your depression worse.

There's depth in my comedy.

There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

'The Descendants' somehow made death and adultery funny at times.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't deserve to laugh at anybody else.

A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.

Everyone deserves to laugh for at least 30 minutes, and 'Ballers' gives you that.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

I think a lot of comedians are desperate to show their serious side, but I got that off my chest early on in my career.

I was destined to make people laugh.