Quotes About Comedy

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'

I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.

A joke bombing on stage doesn't bother me, especially if it's intended to bomb.

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

Don't laugh at a hair joke, Trump.

I've always liked a good joke that everybody can laugh at.

I usually joke around, especially on set.

I don't believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting teacher.

I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was.

My least favorite joke right now is Donald Trump.

They're just jokes, people. They can't all be funny.

I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.

I make jokes. That's what I do.

You step in with the Seth Rogens of the world, you better have some jokes.

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

I've just never been a person that was political or religiously savvy. Except for the fact that I was born Jewish. That gives me 10 circumcision jokes.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.