Quotes About Comedy

As a comedian and satirist you have to be neutral, because everyone's fair game. Once you show bias, you lose that.

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

Never forget your sense of humour.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

A person who is a comedian does comedy in real life, too. But then there are others, too, who are very good in real life, but can't perform in front of the camera. They get nervous. Nevertheless, an inborn comedian does comedy whether he is in films or not.

I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.

A responsive crowd is great - they help you see new things in your comedy.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

That is what I got into comedy for, to be able to challenge myself and just grow as a comedian and find new ways to be funny.

Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.

There's nothing more fun than seeing the things that you dreamed about when you were a kid come true. I'm headlining an iconic theater in New York City during the New York Comedy Festival. When you're starting off as a comedian, you don't think that's ever going to happen.

The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy.

Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for the newspaper, it would be a humor column. If I acted, I wanted to do comedy.

When I started out, nobody told you how to do an interview. That's how I ended up on the front page of a newspaper dressed as Rodney Trotter with a Reliant Robin.

I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.

When you're a co-host, you've got to consider what the other person is saying and take the next step and get the laugh or get to the end of the story. You've got to make it happen and then move on to the next story.

When I'm up there, I'm just thinking that I've got to make them laugh or they won't show up next time.