Quotes About Comedy

Drama is not my passion. If I do it, it's for a check. It's not what I want to do. Comedy's my thing. Stand up's my thing. Everything that comes from that is frosting on the cake.

Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.

With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.

I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.

Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones.

I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping.

I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.

For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.

So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host Saturday Night Live.

I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.

I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.

I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.