Quotes About Comedy

You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away.

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

I hope they bury me near a strait man

I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

I want to put some effort into a bunch of different types of videos. I don't think I'm gonna do 'Man On The Street' messing with people, I don't think I'm gonna do over-the-top wacky comedy.

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.

In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

There's no interference in stand-up. It's all the things it's hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.