Quotes About Comedy

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

I put my parents through mini hell with my laziness and poor grades, so I love making them laugh when they see me on television. When I work, I'm always thinking, 'Would my mother find this funny?' The belly-laugh jokes will hit her every time.

My sister and I had a lemonade stand - with a two-drink minimum.

In Partho's comedy, 'Ami Montri Holam,' I am a minister. This is basically a play and a great actor like Jahor Roy had essayed this role years back. I hope I can deliver five per cent of what he did.

People still talk about 'Yes, Minister.' Americans, too; they love it. It was a happy period for me and it did change my life.

It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.

I try to make fun of everyone as often as possible, especially minorities.

Humor is based on the way a man looks at life's ironies, and being a member of a minority group can certainly be ironic.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang out with your mates, go to the arcades, go to the cinema in the daytime, it's like being a teenager all the time.

I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

Obviously, when you do something with drama and comedy in it - and by that, I mean a scene that has drama and comedy in it - you know the minute you introduce music, you're either scoring the drama or you're scoring the comedy, and therefore the scene becomes either dramatic or comedic.

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.

most humor starts from irritation.

Let's sit in the back," Eve suggested as they moved toward the rows of chairs set up before a makeshift stage. "No one will hear us if we laugh." Rose chuckled now. "You are so bad.

But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

Are you unwell? You aren't going to vomit on me, are you?" "That wasn't on my list of planned activities for the afternoon, no, but if you really insist, I suppose I could try for a hairball or something.

hey. Your lips didn't move when you said that. Are you a ventriloquist?

Put on a smile…little Pierrot. Tragedy has thrust us…together upon this stage!