Quotes About Comedy

I like idiotic comedies.

I think it's funny when parents are idiots.

We can write idiots quite well.

I have seen 'Munnabhai MBBS' and '3 Idiots' around 20 times.

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

Freddie Prinze was my idol, and he died, and there is not much of his stuff to look at. But now, your comedy can live on forever.

Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.

Basically I wanted to be a male comedian; those were my idols.

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

I would love to just watch episodes of 'Horsin' Around' if I could.

Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.

If I could do a sort of comical musical, that would be everything!

I could have played Dot as a very dreary woman with a list of illnesses, but I played her with an edge, so it was funny.

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.