Quotes About Comedy

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

I was offered a lot of romantic and comedy films.

I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV.

I would do 'Superbad,' and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.

'Vadhaiyan Ji Vadhaiyan' offers a fresh comic take.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

'Breaking In' is a very different office comedy and a caper comedy. Aside from 'Chuck,' there is no half-hour comedy that does stuff like that.

We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.

So, do you live around here often?

If I go out and do a set, there's a good chance that I'll watch another comedian. I'll think - not necessarily their words, but oftentimes the message that's behind the words - the sort of belief that their unspokenly advocating, well, sometimes that's offensive.

To me, my favorite joke on a stand-up special is when someone says something and you go, 'Oh my God, I've been thinking that my whole life, I've just never said it to anyone else.' Those little kinda quiet, personal observations you make that nobody else has talked about yet.

If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'

Comedy relieves you. A lot of times, we think we're the only people bothered by certain things. Then you hear a comic say, 'Don't you hate it when...' And it's, 'Oh, my God! Of course!'

Even now, when I go out people are like, 'What are you doing here? Didn't you just have a baby?' But people never ask a male comic when he's out a week later, like, 'Oh my God, you're so irresponsible! What are you doing out? Who is taking care of the baby?'

I love 'Grace and Frankie!' Oh my God, it's the best show.

The black comedians meeting? Oh yeah, we hold one every year at Eddie Murphy's house.

Dave Chappelle

I can drink on the job if I want to. I can go on stage with a beer and it's OK. I can say whatever I want. It's a great job to have.

I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie - my junk food is romantic comedies I've seen a million times.

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, 'Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good.' Hopefully it balances out.

Part of the problem of comedians doing specials every year - when the masters do it, it's like, 'Okay, I guess, go for it' - but when people aren't at the top of the top level, bits don't get to cook long enough.