Quotes About Comedy

I became popular as Bua because of 'Comedy Nights with Kapil.'

Some nights you walk off stage and go 'That was a good crowd.'

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

If you take yourself too seriously, you've got no chance in this job. You cannot take yourself seriously.

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

The best comedy comes from a specific view point, and there is no doubt that the Indian culture has it is own take on the world.

In my case, there are only two kinds of hope - Bob Hope and no hope.

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.'

I started comedy as a hobby with no intention of making it my career.

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

There is no life without laughs for me.

I have no problem joking about who I am.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.

I'm asking. What's the joke?" "Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.

I don't have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don't think jokes even belong in proper books. I won't bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature.

We wrote about whatever we wanted, and we ended up with eighteen million people watching us. That's the thing about television comedy, isn't it? It makes us all a part of something. That's what I love about it.

And also, what kind of job was comic magician? She didn't think she could bear to be married to a comic magician, even if his breath were sweeter than Parma violets and his kisses were like atom bombs. Comic magicians belonged on seaside piers. Comic magicians were what she had come to London to escape, not to find, and certainly not to marry.

She wanted to be given a funny script so that she could make it funnier.

lots of blokes have a Woody Allen sense of humor but look like Woody Allen.