Quotes About Comedy

When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wanted to be on the road. It's a lonely existence, but it is what it is.

I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

I do a lot of dialects in my act, including Irish, because I grew up in a neighbourhood that was predominantly Irish and Italian.

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

I became good friends with Jack Whitehall. I think he's great, such a great dude, and really funny.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the least funny human to exist because of my desperation to say something amusing.

Jack is really the new breed, a wild-man comedian. America's funnyman.

I'd like to do movies. The kind of comedies Jack Lemmon does.

I think Jack Nicholson in 'Chinatown' is a very funny character, but I would never call that a comedy.

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'

Rom-coms are my jam.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

When Huell Howser died, James Adomian had done Huell Howser for years. As crazy as that impression was, James genuinely loved Huell Howser.

Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

I love 'Modern Family.' And I love 'Glee' - the singing, the music - Jane Lynch just kills me.