Quotes About Comedy

Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'

I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

I think there's too many gay jokes in comedy and not enough honest explorations of sexuality.

I don't like the pressure to try to tell the best jokes. I'm not good at jokes.

I tell jokes, chat with people, and make stuff.

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

As a comedian, frankly, I don't care that much about bad jokes.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

Any time you can build jokes around a story that resonates on an emotional level, it is going to have a big impact.

I like to create stuff. I like to express myself through jokes.

I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.

I knew how to come up with jokes at someone's expense really fast.

'Friends' was great fun, but I was just there so they could make some funny jokes about England.

I do love jokes.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.

I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.