Quotes About Comedy

Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'

When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.

I am a complete sucker for funny films. There is something so therapeutic about laughing until you cry.

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.

It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out a way to do it on stage.

I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.

I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word.

Standup is a form of therapy. It is OK to tell problems to your audience as long as you are being honest and not boring them. I tell them that I am saving $75 an hour when I talk to them instead of a therapist.

Stand-up is good therapy.

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.

Every heckler is unique because they say something, and you react to what they say or what they're wearing or who they're with, so every response to a heckle is unique.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!

People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. I like to work, and I fear that something could fall through. You know what they say: 'The show must go off.'

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.