Quotes About Comedy

I am a jolly person. I love to laugh and make people laugh all the time.

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn't be trying these things. That's ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks.

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.

I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.

I think that happens every five years or so when 'Friends' moves to a different channel. I think basically everybody has seen it now. It's so good, and timeless. Actually I don't know if it's timeless, I haven't seen it for years.

I try not to rely on pop culture references as a crutch for jokes, because then, I think, that's when the timelessness quality is lost.

'SNL' is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?

What makes Broken Lizard, I think, is our timing.

Sight gags had to be planned; they required timing and mechanics. Occasionally, spontaneity would arise in the shooting of the scenes.

I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get really personal with comedy. I always really had timing naturally, it was just about trying to figure out how that timing was going to work onstage.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

There's timing in drama. You have to have a sense of rhythm. But the real thing that lends yourself to drama as opposed to comedy is a sense from the audience of whether there's more to it than you can see.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

I've grown as a storyteller, and my comedic timing has gotten better.

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.