Quotes About Comedy

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

I may be more passionate about my comedy because that's the one place where I feel comfortable - because I'm in the now. Performing is the only time of the day when I have to really force every ounce of concentration into whatever's happening in that moment.

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

When somebody takes themselves seriously that's fodder for comedy. I think every musician goes through certain periods of their career where they're all guilty of that - Spandau Ballet included.

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.

I think one of the perks of getting to do comedy is the ability to hang out with the funniest people in the world.

The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.

The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. In my case, anything can talk. Like the mountains.

If I didn't have a gig, I used to ring up all the comedy clubs across the country and go, 'If anyone drops out, I can be there.' Normally, someone would ring you up the day of. It's just perseverance, being scrappy, being a hustler. The first few years, a lot of it was under-the-table work, so that was good. I think I can say that now.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.

With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

Nicolás Maduro empieza a padecer un delirio no exento de lapsus cómicos cada vez que se acerca el micrófono a la boca

To the memory of those who made us laugh: the motley mountebanks, the clowns, the buffoons, in all times and in all nations, whose efforts have lightened our burden a little, this picture is affectionately dedicated.

There's a lot to be said for making people laugh… did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much… but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.

And right from the get-go when George Segal puts on a gorilla suit and Ruth Gordon punches him in the nuts, this movie had me. At that age, the height of comedy was a guy in a gorilla suit, and the only thing funnier than that was a guy getting punched in the nuts. So a guy in a gorilla suit getting punched in the nuts was the absolute pinnacle of comedy.