Quotes About Comedy

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet. It's easy for me.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.

Russell Crowe likes to tell jokes, which I can't. I can't remember a joke to save my life. I don't have a brain for it.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

How many days do you have that are just purely dramatic? How many days do you have that are just purely comedic? It's usually a combination and I think that's what real life feels like.

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.

What is life without laughter?

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.