Quotes About Comedy

Mark Watson and Paul Sinha have been exactly the same - very, very clever, and very, very thick.

You have to have a thick skin, yes. If you're going to do something as foolhardy as standup, you've got to be able to take it on the chin if someone has a go at you.

I would say the more significant factor of my starting late is that I developed a sufficiently thick skin to be able to - just about - handle the knocks that a fledgling comedian takes.

Ten comics can say the same joke, and I'm the one who gets called a thief.

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

I think there's a thin line between pathos and comedy, and I'm not afraid of putting my heart on my sleeve.

I prefer improvising, rather than creating comedy out of thin air.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

Actually the hardest films to make are comedies. In normal life, funny things happen by accident; to re-create those by design in a film takes real technique.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

Keenser is a smart alien. I try to bring a little bit of comedy into it, but he's a great thinker.

I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

Whether I'm performing or directing, I'm aways thinking about rhythm; sometimes it's nailing the right rhythm, and sometimes it's intentionally breaking the rhythm. Those two things are what make something funny or not. How long a shot is and where you put the camera are all part of that rhythm of directing.

Tarantino thinks the Bing is a great room for comedy.

Matt LeBlanc thinks his own jokes are funny which is problematic when you're driving along - he expects you to laugh and often they're not funny.

Andy Dick is so gay, he thinks Margaret Cho is funny.

I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple.

My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.