Quotes About Comedy

It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.

What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.

I'm really drawn to comedy. I grew up in the South, so I'm drawn to all things southern, so my role in 'Getting On' has been fun for me to play something southern - I always feel like I understand those characters more because of where I was raised.

My show is not all about the cerebral palsy, but it definitely comes from that point of view. I tried to do my show from a Southern belle point of view, but that didn't work quite right.

I went to NYU drama school, so I was a very serious actress. I used to do monologues with a Southern accent, and I was really into drama and drama school. And then, in my last year of drama school, I did a comedy show, and the show became a big hit on campus.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don't enjoy the echo. I'm no sell out. Literally.

It was so quick for me on 'SNL.' It's not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.

What's funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.

I am not mean I am just sarcastically humorous

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.

Some people are only funny when they try to be serious.

Melissa laughed and said that our dog was homeschooled

very painful comedy of errors

but we joke and laugh otherwise we would start screaming.

Ich bin ein alter Witz, und schlafe ein.

can't decide whether his next show should be a sitcom about government bureaucrats or a horror series

The jokes. The jokes. The fucking endless jokes.

I thought maybe she was trying to be funny but then realized this was impossible to do without a sense of humor.

Now picture the suspenders attached to a pair of sweatpants. This vision is what first led me to coin the term "camel balls.