Quotes About Comedy

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.

Enjoyment while performing was rare—enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. After the shows, however, I experienced long hours of elation or misery depending on how the show went, because doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.

DID STAND-UP COMEDY for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success.

Now that I had assigned myself an act without jokes, I gave myself a rule. Never let them know I was bombing

I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

How's the uh..uh..(look at palm) SCREENPLAY going… uh..uh..(racking brain) LESLIE NIELSEN." Yipes. Or:

iPhone just synced perfectly with toaster. All is well.

There is a joke about a little girl who is filling in a hole in her garden when a neighbor looks over the fence. He politely asks, Hi! What are you up to? My goldfish died, replies the girl tearfully, and I've just buried him. The neighbor asks, Isn't that an awfully big hole for a goldfish? The little girl tamps down the soil and replies, That's because he's inside your stupid cat.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.