Quotes About Comedy

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

and it was so funny I nearly peed my pants?

Peter's smiling, and he looks like he's about to crack a joke, so I swiftly add, "Or any other body part.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

And his dick looks like a hot dog that got hit with a sledgehammer and sewn back together by a blind lady." "Thanks, Port." "You're welcome, D.

can be very ungreat. 'And before you do any digging you can change the babies' nappies,' smiled Mum. 'Thank you,' I scowled. 'I'm just your slave really, aren't I?' 'Yes,' they answered. I turned round to find the twins and of course they'd vanished, hadn't they? They're always

That's not serious, it's just human.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

For a time Jerry toyed with appearing in another improvisational play called Story Theater, in which he and Carbone considered and rehearsed singing Frankie Avalon's hit Venus, but changing the key lyric to "penis.

If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.