Quotes About Comedy

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

My work is a mitzvah for the eyes & ears...and it will help you forget about your problems by thinking about mine for a change!

I come home from work early one day, and I see a guy jogging down the street in his underwear. I ask him, "Why are you jogging in your underwear?" He says, "You came home from work early".

I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.

We've all been there, onstage. You say something you don't mean, you make fun of something on accident but... This wasn't that. This wasn't crowd work. This was a rehearsed set. This was pointed.

I have a pacemaker in, but it doesn't work very well, because every time I fart the garage door opens.

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.

I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

I can't work with my brother without laughing.

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.