Quotes About Comedy

I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.

Eddie Sadowski of Baltimore is always good for a couple of laughs a game.

It's a lot of people's goal to be the lead in a movie, and that was never my goal. I just wanted to be the third banana in an ensemble comedy.

'Smokey and the Bandit' is tough and funny.

Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.

I haven't watched 'Half Baked' in 17 years, since I was editing it. It's like looking at an old picture where you have bad bangs or something.

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.

That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her.

The first time I read 'Barbecue,' I fell in love with it. I never laughed so hard in my life.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

I pretty much give both barrels every time I walk on stage.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

Nico Santos I've known from Bay Area stand-up, and he lives right by me so we hang out all the time.

The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

In every show that you see, there's some stuff that's funny and some stuff that is not, or there might be stuff that you find funny and I don't. That would be true for any show, however funny or popular.

I look like Scooby-Doo in a beard.

When you're small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot.

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

When I go in to 'Comedy Bang Bang,' I'll go in most of the time with some beats of where we're going with the idea. Everything else is improvised. Nothing is scripted. A lot of times I'll go in there with nothing and it's just conversation with the character.

Comedy and horror are both escapes, and entertainment is a beautiful thing.

I really respect Samantha Bee.

I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show.

I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.