Quotes About Comedy

I just peed and forgot to take off my underwear.

Without the laughter, we'd all be dying too.

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So you're a comedian, he said. Tell me something funny. Okay. The great thing about being an alcoholic is that when you're bored at a party, you can leave without saying good-bye, and people just think you blacked out. Are you an alcoholic? he asked me. That's not really the point, I responded. And I don't like the word 'alcoholic.' I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

She even started following me onstage during the interview segment of my Netflix show and would sometimes prop herself up on the little table between the guest and me.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.

An hour show panics me a lot less than five minutes at the O2. How do you put yourself across and make sure people have a good time in five minutes?

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

If Damon Wayans is not breaking, it's a miracle. He is so funny that he makes everyone die laughing.

I like the sentimentality of 'Miracle on 34th Street' and all those movies, and there actually is a tradition of Christmas comedies, too.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

When I used to work the road, I remember I used to ask myself in the mirror, literally, like in a movie, back when I was not very good at all, I'd say, 'What's it like being the greatest comedian in the world?'

I practice for hours in front of the mirror. I constantly deliver my routine in front of my friends.

Comedy comes from childhood only. The humour genes you are born with remain with you. I was always making mischief and making people laugh.

I like joking around and being a little mischievous. Once an audience or even a group of friends realizes that you're being benevolent about it, then they're along for the ride.

We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

If I don't make myself laugh I would be a very miserable person.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

People enjoy our misery so much, but honestly on those days, the days that you know that you're the one getting it, it's actually not a fun day for the person that's there. Everybody else is cool, the other three guys.

I love how 'Misfits' is a drama-comedy.

I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.