Quotes About Comedy

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

If I'm honest, I think everything is funny. You've just got to find the right way in. When I'm at my happiest and when I'm really on it, when I feel like I'm really on good form at the moment, everything can be funny.

We had - there was 'Laverne and Shirley,' but 'Happy Days' started off the evening, and then, you know, we just sort of swam along with them.

When 'Mean Girls' came out, I was 15. So I saw that movie and was like, 'That is so funny.' But it still has that fluffy, happy ending, and that doesn't happen in high school.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

I've played a lot of bad guys over the years, a lot of hardcore guys. At the same time, I've done a lot of comedy.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

I honestly think comedy is probably the hardest stuff to do.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

Stand-up's hard. It's one of the hardest things in the world, and it's really lonely.

Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.

The hardest I've ever laughed was with Lea Michele.

I think one of the hardest things to talk about as a comic is having money because it's so unrelatable.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.