Quotes About Comedy

Humor is my default mode.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

If an audience is loud and in a party mode, that's an audience that can absorb comedy.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

People ask me about my influences and I say all the comedians in the 1970s and Dave Allen was a massive influence and a very big influence on a lot of modern comics.

If I was on a 'Modern Family' kind of show, and they said, 'You have to say that the burger is $5.55; Have a good day!'... I could do that!

I love 'Sherlock.' I love 'Modern Family.'

I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.

If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.

I got to play with people like Molly Shannon and Wanda Skyes. Going back and forth with people like that is just an extra added boost. Who doesn't want to play catch with Molly Shannon?

I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.

If you look at anything, there are always comedic moments.

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

When people stop me to say they love 'Workin' Moms,' it's not just that the show makes them laugh or is a great escape - they tell me my, or another, character's story is their story.

Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often dressed up as an older, disheveled woman.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

I was on 'In Search of the Partridge Family,' MTV'S 'Miss Seventeen,' and the comedy 'Love Monkey.'

'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.

The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?