Quotes About Comedy

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.

I love Jimmy Fallon; he's always a great time.

I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

It takes time to develop a sense of humor, shared world views.

I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.

I think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where's My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.

In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

That's the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes!

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.