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Quotes About Comedy

I love Maya Rudolph. She's very multitalented herself.
~ Carol Burnett
That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues.
~ Laurie Metcalf
There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.
~ Hal Sparks
I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'
~ Jo Brand
Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.
~ Chris O'Dowd
Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
~ Edgar Bergen
I don't really look at genre. I mean, sometimes you might be playing heavies a lot, and you're like, 'Hey, it'd be nice to do a romantic comedy.'
~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I'm going to make a movie about 'Hey Girl.'
~ Ryan Gosling
People always ask us, 'Hey, is there going to be a 'Beerfest 2'?' I don't know if I have another beer joke in me.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar
I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.
~ Russell Howard
Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn't let me ad-lib.
~ Don Rickles
This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.
~ Khandi Alexander
And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
~ Jennifer Garner
I was the hallway clown in high school.
~ J. B. Smoove
All of the Groundlings you meet, you're like, 'You're like me!' You were that kid in high school, too!'
~ Mikey Day
I feel like comedy is only respected on the highest level, and on every other level, it's like a joke, like, 'Ugh - comedian,' you know?
~ Michael Che
In English films, they concentrate more on background scores and the music will be the main highlight of movie. When it comes to our local language, we have comedy, emotion, hero buildups, etc., and the music for each will be different from the other.
~ Arjun Janya
'That '70s Show' was one of the highlights of my life. I didn't expect to be on it as long as I was.
~ Tommy Chong
Everybody in my family's funny. Being funny was highly encouraged in our family, I think.
~ Catherine O'Hara
The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.
~ Bob Newhart
Every script I've read for 'Black Jesus' has been hilarious.
~ Charlie Murphy
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
~ Zach Galifianakis
I'll watch Ricky Gervais in anything he does. The guy's hilarious.
~ Danny DeVito
I'm actually hilarious.
~ Aldous Harding