Quotes About Comedy

I always wanted to be a comedian but never thought I'd be a musical comedian.

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

It is easy to misunderstand what a comedy song is, or what its potential is. I'm used to musical comedy being maligned as an easy artform.

'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever.

If you go back to before me doing comedy, my background was dancing and then it was musical theatre, but Im a bit of a comedian as far as my careers gone. You evolve in your career and I think thats a good thing.

Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I always thought I was better at that.

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

Musicals are just funny to me.

Seth MacFarlane, he's kind of an entertainment Everyman. He loves musicals, he loves joke-driven comedies, and animated stuff. He likes comedy-comedy.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.

Having live musicians in a comedy show adds a frisson.

I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

In a gray area, you don't have to provide an answer. And I don't want to. I don't want to make a comedy that's like, well, here's the answer. I don't want to make a comedy that's like, this is how to be a Muslim.

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache.

I was the class clown when I was a little young mustache.

I married the reigning mustache champion.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.