Quotes About Comedy

Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either.

There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me.

I'm not of the ilk that there's something immoral about doing an unfunny sitcom - it just gets boring and unchallenging.

I ventured into a world of sitcom, and I have no regrets. I loved it.

Well, usually, when you're doing a sitcom, you get a script and every word or for the most part, is written. So, you know, if it's a 30-minute sitcom, then it's a 35-page script or something like that.

Anything I have blown a lot of money on? Well, I have three daughters and a wife - that's four women, and I'm working on a sitcom, so you could say that I am just trying to stay alive!

I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

I'm a huge fan of stuff like 'Planet Earth' and the American sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'

Everyone told me that British sitcom was dead. Then I looked at 'Seinfeld' and 'Frasier' and thought, 'No it's not, it just needs more gags.'

Sitcom is the best gig in show business because it's easy hours, nine to five.

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that, I think, the sitcom does best.

I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that I've spent a couple of years developing so it would be exactly the character and exactly in with a huge push behind it; or I would maybe want to do a sitcom; something light and funny.

I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies.

I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.