Quotes About Comedy

That was another thing about partners, she decided. They knew what would make you laugh, often before you did.

Two different cops, and both of them fucked up the case. What are they using to train them in Chicago—old videos of the Three Boobs?" "I think that's Stooges," Roarke murmured.

demonstrate she attempted to slam her fist on her knee, missed and caught the medic in the crotch.

Bella: Then why are you wearing that bandage like a sash? Phury: It makes my ass look smaller.

Lassiter hit pause and clamped a hard hand on his shoulder.Sit the fuck back. Watch and learn. What? How much I hate rom-coms? How 'bout we just stipulate that and let me go. You're going to need this. For my second career as a pussy?

Normally, Lassiter was the kind of guy who was so upbeat most folks couldn't decide whether to shoot him to put everyone out of their misery … or just grab some popcorn and a Coke and watch the show. Because even if he pissed you off, it was always hella funny

it was one of the frickin' Golden Girls:

Will you two cut the shit and get a room already, Axe drawled. No offense, but rom coms make me sick. This is not a romantic comedy, Novo ground out. It's a murder mystery with an obvious ending.

Yeah, like Dieter from Sprockets." "Mike Myers is a god.

Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.

Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.

The best way to describe my work is comedy in a very, very real way. I'm not scared to look silly on camera. I take everyday situations we all go through and put a very real twist on it - things people can relate to.

The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.

In love stories you have to establish the mood and then you can go on. Writing thrillers are difficult because every scene needs a twist. May be comedy is even more difficult but I have no experience of it.

All the dramas I admire most - 'Six Feet Under,' 'The Sopranos' - even when the scenes aren't laugh-out-loud funny, per se, there's a comic twist that gives the stories an energy.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

We are just the most twisted, sick, hilarious people that I know.

I might look like somebody who lives next door but I've a dark, twisted sense of humour.

I never pursued anything in terms of performing comedy until I was in my twenties. I was basically forced into it by a couple of my friends who were starting a sketch troupe and thought I'd be good at it. I was kind of terrified by it, but I gave it a try. I am so grateful to those guys for believing in me and viciously twisting my arm!

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.

I'm a comedian in real life. I always goof around; I'm out-going; and I talk with everybody, especially through Twitter these days!