Quotes About Comedy

The girl I took to the prom was 5-4. When we slow-danced, she stood on a chair.

I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.

Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have gone too far.

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

I made four comedies, and all did well, but I always wanted to do an action film. When I saw 'Singham,' I thought this was the right film. Many stopped me, saying, 'You are doing so well in comedy, why do you want to make this film?'

I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.

I think when I first started out, I had a kind of an exuberance about language, comedy, narrative leaps that... stopped just short of non sequiturs. And I'm much more cautious now.

I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.

When I'm stopped in the street, people want to talk about 'The Two Ronnies' and the sketches we did.

It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

I've got the whole of 'Seinfeld' on DVD and I keep on watching the first four series and then stopping.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

I steal props from 'SNL' a great deal. Almost every sketch I'm in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.

I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. I didn't really know he was; we just hung out as comedians together, and when he heard my story, he said, 'Why don't you tell that on stage?' I didn't really want to burden people with all that, but he said that I could have fun with it.

I just showed up at the Comedy Store. You keep showing up, and you keep showing up, and eventually, somebody notices.

I do 'The Howard Stern,' make me happy. Also I sold out Comedy Store in the Los Angeles for my roast. This way everybody know I make the people laugh and happy. I love it.

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'