Quotes About Comedy

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.

I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

Do I miss him? Of course I do. Every day. His death was devastating, he was just 51. But you know, in my stand-up my Dad will always be alive. He's so much part of my act.

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

I think NBC bought SCTV because it was developing a nice cult feel.

Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.

You can't really do comedy if you're working with Ryan Reynolds, eh? He outplays everyone in that field, so I couldn't really 'dial it down,' because he was just so much better than me at comedy.

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

I never said, 'no, I'm not going to do that.' Two things stand out that I really didn't care for, there was the one where they dressed me as a cow. Obviously, I didn't care for it, but I knew it was for 'hahas' for fun stuff. And then, when they put me in a diaper as the New Year's baby, I was like, 'ugh, here we go.'

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write 'Die Hard.'

There's only going be one Richard Pryor. You know how many came out after Richard Pryor and died trying to be compared to him? Or Bernie Mac? You got to be like you.

By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died.

All I'm really doing is talking about going on diets and... just about being a big guy. Why should that be any different from a comic that says, 'I was an alcoholic,' or, 'I was in a bad relationship?'

If I'm making fun of race or making fun of the differences of us, it's just because it's a reality of the situation of the world. And, if you can't laugh at it, that's kind of a bummer.

I think the biggest influence on my stand-up would be Chris Rock, in that I love that Chris is basically an essayist, in that he'll take a subject and just try and attack it from as many different angles as he can.

'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 times. He said: 'Every time I watch it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.'

I'm really fond of 'Real Life' because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And people forget, they talk about 'Spinal Tap,' but that wasn't... this was a mockumentary a long time before that. It was one of the early, early sort of mockumentaries.