Quotes About Comedy

I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.

A good comedian can make serious political points while also having a giggle.

Actually, I've been doing stand-up on the quiet for the last 15 years, in the form of corporate gigs.

Comedy gigs are there because you are all in acceptance that the world is not the way it should be. You have to give yourself a break; otherwise, you would sit crying in a darkened room.

I probably wouldn't be doing comedy, if it wasn't for the fact that I was doing stand-up and getting a few gigs, while I was also applying for law internships and getting absolutely nothing.

I love comedy and I did a few gigs here and there but it never really took off. It was too scary.

Whenever a young comic asks me for advice I only have two things to say. One is to try and do what you think is genuinely funny and the other is just do loads of gigs.

I wanted to be a comedian. And I did that so much in high school, I couldn't get a girlfriend.

After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

In both the 'Punchnama' movies, the characters and their relationships were only about boyfriends and girlfriends. But in 'SKTKS,' we had so much more to talk about.

I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

Something about Floridians, man - they are good to me. I'm glad my comedy translates to them.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

I'm glad to see on a first-hand basis how both Andre Braugher and Andy Samberg work. They're both pretty esteemed in both of their fields, respectively - comedy-slash-dramatic acting work.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

I don't mind being the funny character rather than the glamorous one, although I'm happy to do both.

In America, funny women are allowed to be glamorous and funny, but over here, you're not.

I used to watch 'The Honeymooners' and laughed so much I'd fog up the inside of the lenses of my glasses.

I love 'Glee.'

People like me doing comedy, especially after 'Khatron Ke Khiladi,' where they got a glimpse.

Often you'd find yourself exhausted backstage during a matinee with glitter on your face, asking a colleague, 'Who's your gas supplier?' At the time, I thought, 'This would make a brilliant TV comedy drama.'

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.