Quotes About Comedy

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

I really like 'Disaster Artist.'

A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be more disciplined than that.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.

There is this awkward discomfort when you're doing comedy on camera because people aren't allowed to laugh so that they can get a clean take and you're doing the same thing over and over again.

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

A young comic, if he's any good, can easily get on 'Carson' or 'Griffin' or 'Dinah Shore,' because they want to say the same thing, that they discovered the new talent.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

The Emmys are in good hands with Andy Samberg. Disgusting, dirty hands.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

Disney did well with human characters but only in dramas, not comedy.

Being able to make a comedy at Disney was really appealing.

I am specially happy that so many children like what I do. If I had my way I'd only be doing my comic act on the Disney channel.

When I blow a line at Disney I say, 'Oh fudge,' instead of what is really on mind.

I'm clean but I'm not Disney.

I don't think that in humor and jokes, in whatever way they are done, there is any kind of disrespect.

I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!

It is important to understand that there is no distinction between comedians and actors. All are actors.

We are extremely proud of our 'ABC funny' brand. We think that we have a very distinctive brand of family comedies.

My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.