Quotes About Comedy

I'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.

Neil Simon didn't like it too much when we came out in clown makeup. We stopped doing that.

I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

When 'Family Matters,' and 'Full House' were on, back then it was a simpler time.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self- dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face.

I stood when she reached the table and we did that fake kissing thing, looking like a pair of budgies about to peck each other to death.

Yup--nothing like asking about bull sperm to shut down a conversational exchange.

You do realize that bunny butt is just a polite way of saying rabbit ass.

I always thought that romantic comedies were silly," Myra May said. "But I've changed my mind. The world is pretty grim. People need something to smile about.

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100 000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

I'd ask him what the proctological emergency was, and invariably he'd concoct some scenario that would reduce us both to fits of giggling. Plausibility was strained.

But I know eventually he will be filed under "H" for "hooker" in my expanding file cabinet of funny stories to be pulled out whenever I need a cheap laugh.

It was a good thing Ridge was mighty fond of Tug or he'd probably have killed him by now. As it was, it had been touch and go for a little while that morning. But killing your lover on Christmas morning was so…so…heterosexual.

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.