Quotes About Comedy

I'm not sure what my material would have been if I'd have started earlier. I probably would have started with 'Damsels in Distress' kinds of films because that's the kind of comedy I was writing in college. So I didn't really have any life experience to work off of.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

I'd love to dive into a comedy.

Comedy is changing. The appetite for more diverse stories is getting bigger.

It's cool to be able to use comedy as a way to make people feel like they're a part of a bigger collective rather than as a way to divide.

The state of the world petrifies me as much as it does everyone else at the moment. Anyone who comes to my show expecting incisive political analysis will be deeply disappointed.

My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me.

If an audience is watching you and you're a bloke - it's the same as if you're a woman. They're expecting the same: to be entertained.

What's funny is funny. It doesn't matter what expense it's at. There are people who don't like that and I understand.

I think a lot of comedy is about making fun of people at the expense of somebody.

I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because I'm just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot - but I broke on 'Sordid Lives,' and I broke on 'The Office.' Those are the only two times in my life.

My first stand-up experience was in Tallahassee at a club called Potbelly's.

I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert on them. I've seen them once.

Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.

We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love science-fiction.

Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I've had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

You can't hold comedy back, because it needs to be exposed.

I'm not going to do anything that I don't think is very funny, even if it's a lot of money or massive exposure.

I thank my dad for giving me a good exposure to comedy since childhood. He was a librarian and I would read a lot of comics.

The more exposure any big comic with a disability gets will open more doors for the rest of us and help change people's attitudes.

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.