Quotes About Comedy

I've always wanted to do a romantic comedy.

I would love to make a romantic comedy.

I want to direct a romantic comedy and want Sudeep to star in it.

If there is a chance to do so, I want to work with Stephen Chow in a romantic comedy film.

Ron White is pretty great at what he does.

I think it's true of every great comedy that it's rooted in some dramatic, incredibly personal truth. And it's true of all great drama that there has to be comedy.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

I saw Alan Davies on a show from the London Palladium and he did a nice routine about having kids or whatever. I couldn't do that.

My routine isn't so much dreaming up the comedy as just seeing what happens to me. I seem to be leading a very funny life.

My comedy routines have always been about the health of the nation.

Bimal Roy never kept comedy out of the story line.

I really love 'The Windsors' - and I hope the royal family love it, too.

Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

The Office' was nothing like anything I had ever done before - the style, everything. And Finchy is so over the top, I really did think it would ruin my career.

I've ruined many Thanksgivings!

Every comic delves into the personal archive when their imagination runs dry.

I'm not Russell Brand or Ricky Gervais, but I have enough money that I don't have to work. Most people who've done what I do don't have that.

I think what makes me so appealing is the audience doesn't expect me to be so ruthless.

Great comedy is always sadistic.

I think there's almost nothing that I won't, sadly, do for a laugh. It's a problem, actually.

I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers that I'm that interested in, in the comedy world. Everyone seems to be trying to play it safe.

I think you can safely joke about anything. Mostly.

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules.