Quotes About Comedy

I see myself as the female John Cleese.

I like shows where the female characters are as funny as the male characters, not just commenting on how funny the male characters are.

Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.

I think I'm always inspired by really, really funny, amazing women, but I'm also inspired by really funny, amazing men. I think there's more of a feminist voice, like with Amy Schumer being out right now, whom I adore.

I'm not a bleeding-heart feminist, but I do like to call out that stuff in my act. It's nice when you find a perspective that no one has hit on.

I've done the Hoboken Comedy Festival. It's cool.

I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once.

There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh.

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

Everyone wants me to do the comedy thing. But I always wanted to do action adventure. I want to be a guy like 007 who fights against the establishment. If they can make Bruce Willis believable as an action hero, I could do it, too.

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a night at different clubs in the city.

I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation.

I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.

My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.

The comedians I always loved and respected the most were always filthy degenerates.

I'm a dirty, filthy animal and I'm a dirty comedian, but I got a lot of charisma and charm.

My natural way is when I'm live; I'm like that in natural conversation as well, a bit filthy.