Quotes About Comedy

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

Standup keeps me grounded and keeps me in touch. I get to go from small towns to big cities, across Canada and the U.S., and you're out there and talking to people. You get a sense of what they respond to.

Trixie is like a hyper-feminine child's toy who has it all. I love looking like I'm from Toys 'R Us but serving off-color comedy.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

I've a track record of successful comedy films spread over more than a decade.

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

Taking a night off from comedy to go on a date with someone I'm probably not going to like anyway sounds like the worst trade-off in my mind.

The Comedy Central CDs combined with the TV specials are what led to my stuff being traded and passed around, and a lot more people knowing my jokes than I thought.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect.

When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.