Quotes About Comedy

If you're a comedian, you can only really write jokes for about an hour a day, so you've got a lot of time to fill.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

I love my jokes.

Comedy has bits, has jokes, has stories, and it has characters.

Betty White jokes are just not for me.

I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.

Fart jokes still work for me.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

I know for myself, every now and again on HBO, they'll show some of the young comedian specials from the '80s and early '90s, and it's just fascinating to watch those comedians - some of whom are people that are world-famous, like Chris Rock or Judd Apatow - to see the jokes that people had, but also, the way everything looked.

Every comedian feels out an audience. As you're telling jokes, if they're not laughing at this, you change the subject.

When I write 'Beetle Bailey,' I can always do jokes about him being lazy, and everyone gets it.

As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.

My background is part of my comedy. Your experiences are where the jokes come from.

I always wanted to let people know I was Filipino, but I didn't want to go up on stage and make it so you wouldn't understand my jokes because you're white or black. I always wanted to let people know I was Filipino through my mom. That was always my goal. That way, everyone got it. You don't have to be Filipino to understand my mom.

I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.

You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person that has a lot of jokes that have a beginning, a middle and an end, but it's not a real story. And you have someone that does great stories, the one that blends those things together - that person is doing comedy.

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.

I'm very self-deprecating, so I'm not afraid to make jokes at my own expense, and I've just found that makes people a little more comfortable and can open the door for people to feel a little bit more understanding and accepting of where you're coming from.

I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.