Quotes About Comedy

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

More than an adult comedy, 'Great Grand Masti' is a naughty horror comedy, more on the lines of 'Masti.'

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.

Me and Greg Davies once shared a whole jar of pesto, neat, during the Edinburgh festival years ago because we had no food in the flat.

It's neat seeing people that aren't necessarily part of my demographic who really get the jokes. I love it.

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

I think I became a gay comedian out of necessity, because what else am I gonna do with that name? And it has worked out now, but it was a very difficult childhood. It sounds like the hokiest stage name ever.

I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

I've never felt any sense of kinship with other comedians; they've always seemed too needy.

What I found absolutely the best thing about comedy is it's a little club. You find yourself part of this strange needy society of people who want to go on stage and make people happy.

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.

We weren't rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don't have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.

With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.