Quotes About Comedy

In theatre, I get comedy or nice lead roles. I don't understand a grey or negative role.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I think 'Nathan for You' is a really funny show, along with 'The Grinder' and 'Baskets.' I really like 'Man Seeking Woman.' It's the coolest show because they just do weird stuff, and it doesn't feel weird; they make it normal somehow, which I applaud. And 'Broad City' - I think those guys are awesome.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

During the past few years, I played men who led a gritty life. I wanted to do a lighter and less serious role.

It's never a matter ever, ever - are - we're never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to shock people. We're just trying to make it funny in a way that makes the audience go, 'You know, that was the first joke they thought of, and they weren't afraid to do it.'

To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter.

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

I like playing these characters who are just on the edge of ridiculous but always grounded in reality. I would never want to come across as a cartoon.

When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our lunacy, it grounds everything.

It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.

Who didn't grow up through the '90s watching 'Friends?'

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

I like grown up comedy.

There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.

No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.'

My comedy grows as I grow as a person.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.

If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

If you and I believe two different things, I can attack you verbally all day, but if I can make you laugh and show you the absurdity of your argument, it will lower you guard. People let you in then.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.