Quotes About Comedy

I'm hearing from fans about how they got out of an abusive relationship. That's why I tell people you've got to watch 'The Real.' We are about comedy and inspiration, but personal moments come up, and people are moved by it.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I think there's nothing better than a comedy that also is not afraid to have those heartfelt moments.

People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action.

I mean sex can be funny for heaven's sake.

My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.

The thing that I'm known for - at least, depending on what Subreddit you go to - is being a comedian. And so, even when talking about heavy things, I still want to try to use humor to walk us in the door.

There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'

There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

Getting those parts in the Christopher Guest movies was the second biggest helper to my career after 'Fernwood.'

There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

The ones that I love of 'I Love Lucy' are when one of them decides they need something, and the other one is along for the ride, sort of as the voice of reason, and is helping and making it worse.

In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

I came into comedy to make people laugh. If the fact that I can't stop eating Hobnobs in any way helps, I'm happy to celebrate that.

Andy Parsons was always very funny. He was in a double act with a guy called Henry Naylor. Dan Mazer was always a very funny guy.

Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.

Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.

Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often thought that a woman can't be funny, that women are supposed to be sexy, not funny.