Quotes About Comedy

Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.

I did Second City, and Nia Vardalos also did Second City, so I knew her from there.

I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.

I came up through Second City, so I'm used to playing 20 characters every night who are very different from each other. I wouldn't want my career to be any different.

I can make anything in the room funny in a few seconds.

There are no secrets. Everything gets mined for comedy.

The main reason I got into comedy was in the hope that I could make a few people laugh and feel better about life, and the fact that I do that is quite overwhelming, really.

I'm just trying to be funny, trying to make people laugh, and trying to make the world a better place through some jokes. I don't have words for it. It's so overwhelming.

The overwhelming majority of my material has very little to do with my weight. It's certainly not the crux of my material.

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

I know how hard it is to get a babysitter, get dressed and go out again after work. I'm like, right, I owe you lot a good show.

I always say I owe my sense of humor to 'The Muppets' because I didn't necessarily know what was going on when I watched 'The Muppet Show,' and obviously, 'Sesame Street' was made just for me.

Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.

I mean Ireland, in all honesty I owe Ireland a lot because I think, and I'm not just saying this flippantly, Ireland is probably the reason that I do the job I do because when I started doing stand-up I came to Ireland and I just sort of gelled with the idea of doing it the way I do - telling stories.

I do enjoy working with Ryan although he owes me money.

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.'

I did gigs alongside Oxford students and I thought being working class I'd feel inferior. But the thing is you don't feel inferior if you're getting more laughs than the other bloke on the bill.

I wish I'd gone to university. I had the opportunity to go to Oxford but by then I'd already started as a comedian.

I like to pace onstage.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

What I love about 'The Office' is the fast pace and the zaniness of those characters.

All those zany comedies have instilled a sense of pace in me.