Quotes About Comedy

I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.

If I were a dad, I'd have my kids watch 'I Love Lucy' and 'The Honeymooners.'

People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers'. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

I'm trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don't know if there's any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.

I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it, I think those movies are so funny.

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

I love comedy. God has given me this platform.

Mel Brooks and David Zucker - there are very few people who know silly, and they're usually hugely intelligent, because you have to be intelligent to get it. Like the Marx brothers. I love it.

I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.

I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

I would make sweet love to Don Rickles.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

I love standup comedians. I really do.

When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so they stay.

I love 'Dr Strangelove.