Quotes About Comedy

One doesn't have to resort to cheap imitations of characters or people around you to make others laugh. At least, that is what I've always believed in.

Being on stage is, like, my favorite. The immediate gratification. That's my favorite.

I always enjoy the scenes with Dennis Waterman, particularly when we're playing comedy, we're always finding stuff together and he's very immediate.

Performing a play or a musical or something is obviously an incredible rush, but I don't think you get that immediate response like with comedy unless you get a round of applause or whatever.

When I used to see Rick Moranis do something, to me that was immediately funny. Or George Carlin or Martin Lawrence.

Firstly, I will never leave comedy because I love doing it. Secondly, it's the genre that has given me acceptance and immense love from the audience.

I really like doing stand-up, because it gives you an immense amount of freedom. You haven't got anyone telling you what to do. It's great to have that much power over what you do. You don't have that in television.

I'm not really an impersonator.

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

It's so important, people laughing.

Although I played a cop in 'Jatt & Juliet 2,' it was a comic role, so playing a serious cop with an important role in 'Udta Punjab' was a change.

Any joke can be funny, but not any joke is funny. Any joke has the potential to be hilarious to you, but more importantly, the joke has the potential to not be funny to you but to someone else.

I love 'The Impractical Jokers.' I watch them all the time.

Impractical Jokers' is all about friendship.

Can I do an impression of me? I don't think I can. It would be the most self-confronting thing you could ever do.

I never think if I do an impression of someone, I'm never making fun of them.

Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.

I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression.

I saw 'Animal House' in the theater the night before I left for college. And for better or worse, it made an impression. Within a week, I was in a fraternity myself.

I do a very good impression of Louis Armstrong.

I don't do impressions.

I started off doing impressions. It was a comfortable way to get started.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.