Quotes About Comedy

It is crazy how people can't understand the concept of comedy and music. It's like they have to be mutually exclusive.

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.

Anyone who bombs is my friend.

I would come home with my friend Bill, and we would sit and watch 'Get Smart.' And I was Agent 44, and he was Agent 85. And it was a fantastic - and all we wanted to do was sleep with Barbara Feldon.

If you want to have a nice laugh, then 'My Friend Pinto' is a movie to watch.

I've always said that musicians are the comics of my generations and comedians are the politicians of my generation.

I wasn't doing the comedy thing at all for six months. And it was just eating at my soul.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.

It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.

I kind of knew inside that I wanted to try comedy, but it was a mystery. How do you start? So when I hit 30 and I had done everything I wanted to do in journalism, so I went to a comedy class. I figured I'd learn how to do five minutes and see how it feels.

In any awards ceremony, if you're a finicky person like myself, you can pick a multitude of things to nag about. I get frustrated with the comedy category because it feels like it gets sidelined a lot of the time for all kinds of things - not sidelined, marginalized.

I've realized that I can never not do the nail salon joke, and I will have to talk about Bon Qui Qui for eternity.

I was very fortunate to have had three years on 'Fresh Meat,' before working on 'Not Safe for Work.' Comedy drama is a very hard genre to nail so I was very glad to have had some practice.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Naked dudes are inherently funny.

'Naked Gun 33 1/3' I think made me laugh more than anything ever made.

I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.

I look up so much to those movies, 'Airplane!' and 'Naked Gun.' I think that stuff is so funny. I grew up just loving all that stuff and sort of idolizing Leslie Nielsen.

I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine.

I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.

You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.