Quotes About Comedy

What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do.

It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians.

The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

My secret to comedy is don't offend anybody. Don't offend anybody ever. That's my secret.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Every comic says things that are going to offend someone, so we all have to defend each other with this stuff.

People, I think, are more interested in being offended than getting to the heart of a situation. And to go after comedians to me is so counterproductive, because comedy is kind of a medicine.

I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

We'd never do anything tasteless. There's enough to make fun of without offending.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

I did my first set at a talent show, and I couldn't finish because the judges didn't like my jokes. They were 'offensive.'

I'm very observational in my comedy and what I create with the characters that I'm blessed to play. I don't believe comedy needs to be offensive, and I don't believe it needs to be a mockery of anything.

I don't really see the point in offensive comedy.

Everyone says comedy is really hard, but with 'The Office' the naturalism was everything so it didn't feel like doing comedy; it just felt like doing a really offensive character who thought he was funny.

A lot of times I go to a comedy show, I sit there and wait for the comedian to run out of ideas and look at me and make an Asian joke. Which is very different for blacks and Latinos. You can't say certain things because everyone is cognizant of when things are and should be offensive. Asians don't have that luxury.

I wouldn't defend comedy that I find offensive, but there is a lot of comedy that some people find offensive which I would defend. You can't talk usefully in generalisations.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

I don't get offered many comedies.