Quotes About Comedy

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.

I don't look for [comedic moments] actually, I just live my life.

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.

There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.

I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.

There is nothing better than a laugh in life. There just isn't.

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.