Quotes About Comedy

I love romantic comedies more than anything.

More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.

I feel that I'm a stand-up comedian more than anything else, that's my job.

It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'

I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is the mortar. You piece it all together and have a certain flow to it.

Laughter is America's most important export.

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.

Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is.

The most difficult thing is to make people laugh. It is easy to make them cry.

It's the most difficult thing to make people laugh.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

I used to go to open mics in New York when I was starting out, and it was mostly just people who wanted an audience to look at them for eight minutes on a stage.

Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.

When I'm telling jokes, I'm constantly in motion. I can't stand in one place.

For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for me, comes from kind of a hostile engine.

I've tried to create a comedy that doesn't look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind of formula that says, 'Oh, comedy has to look this way; it has to look super bright.' But the way we shoot 'Insecure' is motivated by the mental state of each of our characters.

Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow.

Laughs, just laughs. It's the only motivation of a comic.

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.

The house looks like we've been robbed, but who robs you and then makes ten failed attempts to make a toast before leaving?

Anders burst our laughing. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, Capiche - oh, God, capiche, and at that...