Quotes About Comedy

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.

Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.

I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling?

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures

One of my favorite movies of all time is Fargo.

When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

Too many comics today ramble. By the time they get to the punch line, the audience has either gone to sleep, gone to the bathroom or gone to bed.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not.

When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."

I said to a girl I'd been seeing, come home with me, honey, and I'll show you where it's at. She said, You'd better, because the last time I could'nt find it.

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.