Quotes About Comedy

Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I was ten years old.

One of my favorite comedies is Three Amigos! Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.

I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."

Before I realized I had faults, I was already joking about it, to get attention. By the time I went to high school, I had a pretty practiced routine down.

At one time or another, everyone's had the rom-com itch that needs to be scratched.

If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.

You take a normal guy, give him a wife, give them time, and you've got AN IDIOT!

I want the roast to be like a party where everybody goes and has a good time.

I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now...once he opened the car door for me in the last four years - we were on the freeway at the time.

I think stand is better now than it's ever been. I think it's the greatest time ever to do standup comedy.

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.