Quotes About Comedy

I don't want to do a rabidly left-wing show. I think it's much more interesting to turn the knife on yourself.

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.

Basically I try not to knock other comedians.

I have a self-deprecating sense of humor, so I knock myself.

I think my comedy's probably the same as my art, which is kind of abstract, impressionist, emotional. You create an emotion and then you knock it down. You take something the way people are expecting it to go, and then give it a different conclusion.

You know, if James Brown is the godfather of soul then Richard Pryor is the godfather of comedy, period. That man knocked down all those last freedom of speech doors.

I think 'Top Gear,' it's about people knocking about.

Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

Everyone knows I love a good fart joke!

Koreans are hilarious.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label - make me laugh. I want to make you think.

'Nice' is not a common label for comedians, but it is for Canadians. I like it.

I don't like labels. I have always fought against that as a stand-up.

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.

I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

I haven't had a boyfriend for, like, a hundred years, and I'm at that point where I could really use a guy on a Saturday for about six hours. You know what I mean? Because everything in my apartment is broken.

The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such a mingling.

A wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left.

Humor is a girl's best friend. The world's a funny place.

I learned young that moments of comedy during the horror show can be a life raft, enough to keep you bobbing in a violent, killing sea.

I snicker at my joke. Dude, if ya can't crack yourself up, ain't never gonna crack anybody else up.

Comedy is pain plus time.