Quotes About Comedy

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

I loved 'Clueless.' That was one of my favorite movies of all time.

you know... there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time.... husband!!!

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.

I've been a huge fan of the cable network FX for a very, very long time. I think their brand of comedy is incredible. For me, as an audience member, that's a go-to channel.

Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.

I think we all feel the same things most of the time, we just don't know how to put it into words. When I'm on stage, I say it. The truth makes people laugh.

Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.