Quotes About Comedy

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

I guess there's nothing funny about a guy who looks conservative and has it all together, but it's satisfying to see a conservative guy crumbling inside, and I think a lot of American comedy has cottoned on to that.

Chris Guest movies are funny.

With Christopher Guest films, we have a lot of say.

Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character.

There's very few comedy sci-fis that have worked for me other than the classics, like 'Red Dwarf' and, of course, 'Hitchhiker's Guide.'

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

I've always worked toward, and felt comfortable with, you know, pausing and guiding the audience on a longer bit.

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

I don't feel guilty about it, but I love me some 'Modern Family.'

Doing political comedy you do feel guilty that you aren't trying to change problems, you are merely exploiting them for your own financial gain.

I've dropped a lot of race humor from my routines, not because I think it is in bad taste, but because I don't want to be guilty of telling old jokes.

I've always liked using humor, but what I had to with 'Chewing Gum' was take out a lot of darkness so it would be a bit more feel-good.

I was shot from the funny gun.

What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.

Let the other guys do the crybaby stuff. Go for the laughs.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

My mother loves it when I talk about her. Half the time, I think she says things that she knows will go straight into the act.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

I mean, 'Kids In The Hall' is the reason I have any career at all.

I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall.

I wanted to be like 'Kids in the Hall.'

I never really saw 'The Kids in the Hall' until after we started 'The State.'

When all my girlfriends were watching 'ER,' I was watching episodes of 'Kids in the Hall.'