Quotes About Comedy

In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

Before I had children, I was - everything about my life was devoted to "Saturday Night Live."

Its just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the 80s. Folks who know me think its hilarious.

I find anger to be funny. I find people that are so wrapped up in their own personalities to be funny, and lost. Like myself in real life.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.

If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

As I always have with stand-up or anything, you kind of draw on what you're going through in your life.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events.

When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

Cake or death?

I'm covered in bees!

Squirrels always eat nuts with two hands, always two hands, "arararar", and occasionally, they stop and go, oh, uh, ah, as if they're going, "Did I leave the gas on? No! I'm, no I'm a fucking squirrel!" And occasionally they go, "Fucking nuts! Fed up with them always. I long for a grapefruit.

Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!