Quotes About Comedy

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.

The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies.

I was very young when 'The Carol Burnett Show' came out, but that kind of comedy and the spontaneity of her, I think it really deeply affected me within just the joy of performance.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.

My humour is spot on.

I think I've kind of carved out a sweet spot for myself by combining science and comedy.

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

One of my biggest gripes with wrestling in the last decade is it has seen a lot of silly, goofy characters. I feel like every other match is a comedy spot, and there's nothing wrong with that, but I think if there is a comedy spot, it should be special.