Quotes About Comedy

What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.

I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.

I want to crack jokes about people. That is my right.

I don't let a lot of people know about my dad dying on 9/11. It's not a way to introduce yourself. So I never told anybody, and then I would do jokes about it... and I think people thought I was lying about it. Which would be crazy!

Before, I didn't do celebrity stuff, 'cause Kathy Griffin did that, but now, if you're going to make jokes on Twitter, you have to stay current.

The thing that's frustrating about improv is that even if you have the best show in the world, it's over when it's over. You get to build stand-up - I really like that aspect of it. I like writing jokes, and you don't get to do that in improv.

To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.

I always like to make some jokes, sometimes.

We only ever write jokes that amuse us.

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

I've never sat down and written jokes. I wouldn't know how to.

The thing where I thought I made it was when I paid my house off. It wasn't actually a moment on stage - it was the first bit of financial security. It was the first time I looked at my house, and it was all paid off, and I thought, 'Alright. Jokes paid for this.'

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

Comedians who aren't screenwriters are telling jokes that they themselves think are funny. They're expressing their own view of what they think funny is.

I love making jokes on the Internet.

The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is significantly easier.

I go to the British Comedy Awards and, you know, quite a few people were making jokes at my expense. It just made me feel awful, because I am there with my wife and she has gone out and bought a dress. And it is my big night and I won, and yet the overriding experience was that of nastiness.

I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.

I used to do much shorter jokes a lot more.

All I ever wanted to do was tell jokes for a living.

Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.

Rob and I both have a problem with taking jokes too far.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.