Quotes About Comedy

The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.

I love 'Phoenix Nights' and I would love to go back. I've got a lot of ideas about 'Phoenix Nights.'

I don't buy into the phrase 'comedy genius.' It's like football; you can have the talent, but 90 per cent is hard work, the other ten per cent is trying to make it all look as natural as possible.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.

As a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes. I don't mean physically hit. But you know, because I'm a woman, I can say things about women because I know what it's like to be a woman, if that makes any sense.

I got to the stage where I physically couldn't carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity.

We can't really do any improv on 'The Big Bang' because we don't understand a lot of what the dialogue means to begin with, because of the physics jargon.

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

The president of CBS handpicked me for the 'Star Search' revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration.

Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.

Let's make some funny pictures.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

I've got a wife, two kids, a dog and a mini-van. Isn't that disgusting? We're talking Americana, man. Apple pie on the table and everything.

When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.

Without sounding pretentious, if you get the emotional truth right, then you're set. Then the funny stuff you can pile on as much or as little as you want.