Quotes About Comedy

Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.

I really think the biggest honor, as a comic, is to get roasted by either the Friars Club or the Comedy Central or someone like that. Because it really shows, you know, that you've arrived.

You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason for telling it.

I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.

I was a very cocky and unlikable young comic. But I came from the hood, and that's what I learned.

I feel the life expectancy of a comedian is 30 seconds. If you don't hook an audience in half-a-minute, you're dead.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

I've had shows where, afterwards, people have commented or hoped I would talk more about something in politics or that I would make a joke about Mitch McConnell or something like that.

There aren't as many women in my industry in comedy as there should and could and hopefully will be, but it is interesting growing up watching a woman in a male-dominated industry and kind of, like, plowing ahead.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I can only speak for myself, but you never set out to be funny. You just set out to play the scenes real, and hopefully the funny comes.

Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.

I just really remember the feeling of being a younger comedian who was kind of an outlier for being experimental and weird and how that could feel lonely or hopeless.

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.

There were a lot of areas we didn't cover that I'm hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy's home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing.

As comedians, we work our whole lives hoping for a break.

It requires a lot of courage for someone to cast me in something else. I am just hoping that someone sees something else in me other than comedy.

I was hoping for big TV, film, and this and that, but stand-up was the only thing I knew.

I tried do stand-up, and I was horrible. And I'll never do it again.

You can make me laugh at a thing that I think is horrific. You can make me laugh at a thing that affects me personally. But if you've done your homework and you've gone about it the right way, it will still be funny.

Most comics' first gig is either brilliant or horrific.

I like horror; I like comedy; I like drama; I like action; I like female heroes.