Quotes About Comedy

Twitter is a good medium to lean how to write jokes. It pushes you to write a better joke in that, on Twitter, the first joke about something has already happened. You need to think of the second joke and the third joke.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

I've got my foot in 'Saturday Night Live,' and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I'm really pushing myself to do these new projects. It's scary as hell, but it's fun to have other things to keep my creative brain cooking.

Comedy, in my opinion, is best when it's in the gray, and you're kind of pushing people's thoughts that they sort of had but never vocalized. And I think a joke is not good if someone says something, and immediately people are clapping because they're like, 'Yes! That is how I feel as well!'

I've always liked outrageous comedy and pushing the envelope.

On 'The Mick' we want to make the funniest family show possible, but maybe pushing the boundaries of which family members you want to be watching - some kids will be too young for it.

That's humour - doing what funny people have done since comedy began without being edgy and pushing boundaries.

I'm a student of Comedy Central. It launched careers: Wanda Sykes and even Kevin Hart. The first time I was introduced to him, he was on Comedy Central. It puts you on the map... Hollywood knows now.

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

I would love to host 'Saturday Night Live.' That's one of my goals in life - just putting that out there. I don't know if I'm funny enough, but we'll see.

I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

I can be a bit movement-orientated and flamboyant because, essentially, I'm a physical comedian.

I don't like my feet. I'm not crazy about anybody's feet. But I have flat feet.

A boring speech can be just a boring speech. But a speech with a joke that falls flat is awful. I hate it. That's why I think it's easier to hate a comedy. If a drama doesn't land, it's boring; if a joke doesn't land - you hate that.

He is like a bad dog, Bez. We lived together in a flat and if you didn't get up before him, he would get up and he would take your clothes.

Stath Lets Flats' at its heart is a character comedy show about a family-run estate agents, but it's inspired by a real family!

I would make a few jabs at myself and go for the audience - they are still as flawed as ever.

There is so much competition and content floating around right now, so comedy has to have a lot quirk and heart.

I take a subject, then I go on stage, and whatever is in there comes out. You can edit as you go and continue to work it out on stage until it's something you like, but I never think about it. I just go up and flow.

I buy flowers for myself all the time. I'm comedy's Elton John.

Comedy can be quite all consuming at times, and if you're not careful you end up doing a tour, then a DVD, then another tour then a DVD. Suddenly the years have just flown by.

I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy.