Quotes About Comedy

I thought, 'Anyone can make up a lie, but making the truth funny is really hard.' But I actually had more problems with people believing me when I told the truth on stage.

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.

If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling 'jokes' like he was doing at a conference.

Chip's sphincter had meanwhile dilated nearly to the degree of unconditional surrender.

blow the sixty bucks on a movie on Shattuck, on a bucket of fake-buttered popcorn and a shoe-box-size carton of Whoppers or Junior Mints. Cradling the bucket or carton he'd slip into the darkness, washed over by the phantasms of some sex comedy played by American actors a quarter-century younger than himself, who were meant to be taken for adults. This would make it permissible to die. Desirable, even.

When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.

Even Alf is not humorous at times.

Tragedy is an unfinished comedy.

Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.

Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.

Vance shook his head. "Philly, I love you, buddy. I do. But you're not my type." "I'm not?" "What? Are you insulted?" Philip was pondering that when the front door jingled.

That is the saving grace of humor. If you fail no one is laughing at you.

The definition of wit is a joke that doesn't make you laugh.

The only type of humor that is excused lower classness is satire, and satire is the chamber music of comedy - a joke that many people profess to enjoy, but few actually get.

I'd like to do a romantic comedy.

I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.