Quotes About Comedy

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.

I'll be doing stand-up for the rest of my life. The opportunities that it grants you can't be denied. Stand-up is both the hardest thing I do and the thing I enjoy most.

Humor is the hardest thing to do. Action is so much easier, because you're just trying to establish the mood, and a pacing, and a rhythm, and an energy. Where, in humor, comedy is so subjective.

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.

I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important - giving birth, not only to a lot of modern art, but also shaping comedy, music and political protest.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

I know I'm funny, and I like to be in front of people, and the fact that I'm good at that. It's the one thing that gave me self-esteem.

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.

The one thing that I'm really obsessed with is multi-camera comedy. It is a form that is unique to network television.

The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.

I always thought, as a kid, if you - and the reason that I sort of stayed away from doing one character on a sitcom is - if you're doing one thing all the time, the audience is going to come up to you and say the one thing all the time.