Quotes About Comedy

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.'

My dad wanted to be a musician, so when I started playing guitar, he was like, 'Go for it.' That is what I did for ages; I was in bands. And then I went to university and got into comedy somehow.

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.

I'd say that comedy is my God-given gift.

My inspiration is the one and only godfather of comedy himself, Richard Pryor. He's the greatest.

Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.

Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.

I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

I think, as I've gone on, I've got a sense that there are some laughs I want, and some laughs I don't want.

I want to do good action flicks and romantic comedies from now on.

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

If you are a good actor then you are good at comedy.

I think comedy is very easy. Its all in the writing. If the writing is good and you have good director it is good.

You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.

I love Charles Barkley, he's a good friend of mine and he's a funny guy. He knows nothing about college basketball. Less than nothing.

Daniel Bryan is a friend of mine. It's sort of funny that the relationship that you saw between Team Hell No on screen, it sometimes goes the same way off screen as well. He is a great human being and good friend of mine, and frankly, the Team Hell No stuff helped me.

My favorite guy is Ben Schwartz. We've become really good friends.

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

What could be said about 'Party Down?' So many things. It was such a good idea - a different party every week is such a slam-dunk of an idea that I couldn't believe it had not been done yet. The creators of it are my friends.

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.