Quotes About Comedy

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.

Aside from Joan Rivers and Roseanne, it's hard for me to think of any female comedian who's had kids and has a serious level of fame - like, the level where your mother has heard of them.

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

A theatre tour as me, Joe Lycett, with support acts. That would be the dream.

I sound like Joe Pesci and Frankenstein had a baby.

John Hughes loved improvisers.

I sort of as a kid was fascinated with all the fat comedians, like John Candy, John Belushi, Benny Hill.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them, they made a bit of a name for me at the time, so that part of my life was very good.

I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

I like Johnny Carson because he doesn't hold anything back when he's going for a laugh. Johnny will do anything, say anything, to get his laugh.

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

I am a big fan of Johnny Lever.

I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

I wasn't drawn to comedy: it was drawn to me - from fighting in school to going to jail, then joining the military and getting into Hollywood.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.

Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.