Quotes About Comedy

I met Adam Sandler through 'Saturday Night Live,' and we became friends.

I'm a 'Saturday Night Live' guy. I'm a comedy guy. As long as they're giving it to everyone, I don't care about how low they go, most of the time.

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'

When I was 8 years old, I watched 'Saturday Night Live,' and I always wanted to be on there and be an entertainer.

My dream is to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm going to do everything to make that happen.

We always have a little comedy. It's the Marvel secret sauce. I think it's what helps Marvel resonate with the audience, that, yes, we're in the joke, too.

What we've discovered is that Americans seem to love our saucy humor.

I think we make fun of the things that scare us the most.

'Beetlejuice' used to scare me.

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

If something is a comedy for the sake of just comedy's sake and it doesn't have a good message, I don't have an interest in being part of it. If something is just serious and scary with no good message, I don't want to be a part of it.

I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.

What's fun now is that I have a show at USA that I co-wrote called 'Benched.' I'm completely behind the scenes and not the actor at all.

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

Being a screenwriter for a comedy, you're writing for characters in them in their voice. I could write anyone.

I still talk incessantly about 'SCTV,' and I say, 'Screw the kids!'

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

The majority of scripts I get are in the comedy genre.

This isn't just 'Scrubs' with new actors. 'Cougar Town' has a heart to it that's all its own.

When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser.

I did a musical episode of 'Scrubs.'