Quotes About Comedy

What happened was, in my final year of university in Australia, there was a campus comedy competition, and I felt like it was something I could do. I won that competition, and I kept doing it, and I couldn't get a job in law. So I just kept doing comedy.

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically.

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor, financially, emotionally, egotistically. I still don't think I'm in comedy.

When I found stand-up, it was like finding home.

No one finds me as funny as I find myself!

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

My cheerleader part in 'Fired Up!' is really funny.

Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.

I always worry what I would have done if I hadn't found comedy. I think what would I have ended up doing? I've worked in a construction firm, fashion company just all things where I wasn't very good at my job.

'The Office' was such a great first job.

I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

Football is my first love - Man United, not comedy.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

I did see 'Zoolander II,' and I thought it was a cool movie, but I liked the first one way more.

As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

If I have a passion for anything, it's more the truth than politics, and I think that's what got me interested in comedy in the first place, because the best comedy is the truth. People recognize that.

'Cheers' was a good first step because I got to write my own material.

It's only fitting that a Jewish comic makes his Just for Laughs anglo debut in a church, right?

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

In terms of comedy, I never did five-minute sets or clubs or anything. I just started doing shows. Coming from that theater background, it never crossed my mind that I should start doing five-minute sets.

I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.