Quotes About Comedy

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

There's no such thing as a hit joke.

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.

My only rule about a joke is that it should be funny.

Lacroix has been fantastic. He's very nice. He gets the joke, and I think that's a good thing.

Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

I do a joke in my stand-up where I say I'm a Christian, but I'm not a Christian comedian. I think that's definitely how I see my acting. I'm an actor who happens to be a Christian.

'30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.

I once did a flip-flop joke in San Diego, and I got booed... but it's all in good fun.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

I start with the joke line and write backward.

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.