Quotes About Comedy

You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.

I like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.

There's things that I couldn't joke about but other people could.

I don't mind being the butt of the joke... It doesn't really bother me. I quite enjoy it.

A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

I'm pretty equal opportunity when it comes to issues to joke about.

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times, and then one night it'll flop.

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

I ain't apologizing for anything, especially if it's a joke.

I know what's funny, and I probably know the best way to deliver the joke. Whether it's walking out of a room, facing that way, facing this way. I just have a sense of that.

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.

I'm not much of a joke writer.

I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke.

I always think any circumstances can be funny. Not that I'm irresponsible, but when things go wrong, I always come up with a joke or think of something funny to say.

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

Whatever happened to a good pie-in-the-face joke?

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.