Quotes About Comedy

It is so rubbish when comics belittle their children in the misguided belief that it makes them look cool.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

I really miss playing Hansa. I just love her.

I really love 'Broad City' and Lena Dunham's 'Girls,' which I missed when it was first on years ago.

I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.

I've got a wife who never misses me. Her aim is perfect!

I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.

I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me that such and such a scene or story is comical, I tend to gape. I did not intend comedy - ever, as far as I know. It's probably all a mistake. I am essentially a lugubrious writer. Ha ha!

It's tough to do comedy. After 'Mister', my inhibitions with respect to comedy have come down.

I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the actor or someone. But the 'comic genius' actors are the darkest people on the planet - and that kind of scares me!

As a kid, I saw a lot of scary movies, but they were mixed with comedy, like 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.'

I love mixing horror with comedy.

You know Seth and Evan, they were lead writers for 'Pineapple Express', and they are great at mixing things up. Taking different genres and mish-mashing them up to create something dynamically new. They'll throw comedy at you, but with a dash of horror and fright that is supposed to make you shocked and scared.

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

There's a mixture of pride and self-loathing in Jewish female comedians that I've always admired and wanted to bring into Jinkx.

I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit.

I only started driving lessons because of comedy - before that, there's be no need. There was a bus from where I lived to where I worked and I had a very obliging, mobile sister.

I watch the wonderful Dara O'Briain refereeing 'Mock the Week,' where they all compete with each other. I wouldn't be on that. It frightens the life out of me.

If people are coming to see me because they like what I do on 'Mock the Week,' that's great because they are coming to see me being me.