Quotes About Comedy

Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It's a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons.

Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere.

Comics and actors come from such a wide variety of backgrounds and there's a theory that all comedians had tortured youths.

Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.

I have done a wide range of characters and getting acknowledged as a comedian is encouraging for me as an actor.

Tommy Chong is one of my favorite people in the whole wide world.

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.

My first drag role was the character Widow Simone in the ballet 'La Fille Mal Gardee.' She's a crazy social climbing woman trying to marry off her daughter to the wealthy town idiot. And in the middle of the show, she gets to perform a clog dance. I loved it.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

I remember seeing a movie with Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney where they were husband and wife, and they got in bed, and he had on polka-dot pajamas and she had on striped pajamas, and when they got up the next morning he had on the striped pajamas and she had the polka dot pajamas, and that was considered racy at that time!

Take my wife... Please!

The wife's run off with the bloke next door. I do miss him.

My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

My wife said, 'Take me in your arms and whisper something soft and sweet.' I said, 'chocolate fudge.'

My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.

I started out in the 1970s doing the Wife, the Bimbo, and the Ditz, and if I somehow get a serious role, they all wanna know the same thing: When are you going back to comedy?

Anything I say about women, I try to make sure that at least five or six friends of mine are going through a similar situation. That way I'm not picking on my wife.