Quotes About Comedy

Lucille Ball]'s such a TV icon it's hard for some to separate the two Lucys—the gorgeous, snappy actress of film and the wacky, slapstick queen of television. On TV she was a middle-aged housewife, on film she was a dazzling beauty. The difficulty with her movie career wasn't that she was bad or not up to the roles. Quite the contrary: They were rarely up to her.

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

With '3 Mics', there's nothing I'm talking about that's too hot button.

I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.

So I started as a comic at 18 and got really into it by the time I was 21, 22, so I was on the road a lot. I lived everything I needed to live like a rock star.

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.

I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.

The first time I did Cake Boss or Ice-T or Andrew Lloyd Webber was on 'Best Week Ever.'

Funny is funny, whether you have three cameras or one.

Bobby Heenan was as quick-witted off the cameras as he was on the camera and just as funny. A great guy and I just thought the world of him as a person.

I was in Canada for many years before coming to the U.S. I have done dramatic roles but after coming here, it has been only comedy stuff.

I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

As a female comic, if you talk about sex in any capacity, you will be branded a 'sex comic,' so I might as well go full force on it.

I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I do think, though, there were great comic actors like Thora Hird and Max Wall who only got taken seriously when they did straight roles at the end of their careers.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

I loved George Carlin... I used to sit in front of the TV and watch the HBO comedy specials. I loved those comedy specials.

You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so smart, they were the thinking-man stand-ups.

I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.