Quotes About Comedy

Because such a massive part of stand-up is trying and failing first, I'm not putting as much pressure on. Just going out and doing it is enough.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

I really think everything is fair game.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.

The thing with physical comedy is that you have to actually try to do the thing you're trying to do - you can't fake it.

I don't tend to read much comedy, but there's a fake advertisement section at the end of Derren Brown's book 'Pure Effect' which always makes me cry with laughter every time I come across it.

I have no real enemies in comedy, but there are a couple of people who I'd laugh about if I heard that their legs had fallen off.

I've fallen to make people laugh. Often.

Our comedy is just falling over, funny faces, arguments, all the comedy basics, really.

I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down.

I used to do a lot of pratfalls on stage. And I tell you, when a guy with cerebral palsy falls down on stage on purpose - nobody ever knows if it was real or not.

There's always something interesting about comedy teams that have the exact same energy. The one time I really noticed that was Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in 'Step Brothers.'

People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter is key. If they shed a tear or go home thinking about the play, that's a bonus.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

If I can bring you to the point where you're almost in tears one minute and laughing so hard the next and you've healed a bit at the same time, that's when I get to use the gift I was given.

I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.

I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.

Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid.