Quotes About Comedy

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

I'm not joking - it's a top-three dream of mine to be on a comedy on HBO and to have it directed by Mike Judge and Alec Berg, and then on top of that, have it be with friends, two of them I've known for 10 years.

If I leave the mike in the stand, my hands absolutely move more. I'm not sure if it's a conscious thing.

Comedy is not about appearance; it's about rockin' a mike. Are they laughing? That's the only test.

We had great comic mileage in the 'SG-1' episode 'The Swarm,' where Woolsey is running away faster than anybody else.

The great thing about comedy is that the longer you've been alive, the more you have to talk about and the better you get. I've got some miles and some road savviness that some other guys don't have.

If I got into a fight in a bar, I'd miss the dude by miles. I wouldn't know how to connect. It would be a comedy.

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

I do enjoy Dennis Miller, I do enjoy Chris Rock when they do their political humor, but it's never been my goal... I love relatable humor.

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

I love 'Armstrong & Miller.'

From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. It felt like a million miles away, something I could never do, but would be great to.

And the film that I've seen a million times is 'When Harry Met Sally' with Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and directed by Rob Reiner.

If you haven't truly died a million times as a comic you haven't gigged enough!

Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.

Unless we get out of these mindless comedies and a good-for-nothing fellow trying to win over the heroine kind of films, Tamil cinema will not be taken seriously.

Mindless films are usually far more entertaining because the audience just comes for a laugh.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.