Quotes About Comedy

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.

The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially, 'Why did you keep my daughter a secret all of these years?' I didn't know any direction my character was going - was it going to be a dramatic character, a comedic character? - I didn't know.

I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.

Do you know there were two pilots made for 'Have I Got News For You' before the series started two decades ago: one hosted by Angus Deayton and one hosted by me. But I was told that they couldn't have a woman in charge of the news.

I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.

I played myself in an Aziz Ansari comedy, and that was funny to see how they saw me... flowing scarves and a flourish of pink! Eek!

It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'

It is difficult to pinpoint my favorite comedies.

I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.

I'd taken some classes at UCB in New York and again at the Magnet Theater and the PIT Theater. I definitely never advanced to where I was on a team or anything like that.

I remember seeing 'Pitch Perfect' and loving it right away. It's hilarious!

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

For me, the comedies that truly work are the ones that are grounded in some way. If it's all heightened, it's really hard. It's a little slippery. It's hard to get purchase on the side of the wall.

You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them.

Before comedy, I worked at a tech company, and before that, I worked on Wall Street. And, honestly, I've never really been sexually harassed.

I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket.

Working on 'The Larry Sanders Show,' everything was there on the paper and in the room and within the four walls when all of us were together. It was just all there.

A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced.

I was a giant fan of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' in high school, and I was obsessed with Jim Carrey and cut out any picture of Jim Carrey that ever came in any kind of magazine. I put it all over my walls. At the time, I thought humor was just repeating lines from 'Ace Ventura' ad nauseum in the back of my advanced math class.