Quotes About Comedy

In the old days, if you topped the bill one evening, you'd do 22 minutes maximum, and if you overstepped and did 27 one night, you'd get a knock on the door telling you it wasn't acceptable.

All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman.

When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.

Somehow I got a hold of an address for Vonnegut shortly after making the Marx Brothers film. Vonnegut wrote back, saying that he had seen the Marx brothers film and loved it. That became the foundation of our friendship: old movies and comedies.

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.

I really like 'Gladiator.' I like 'The Dark Knight.' I really liked, when I was a kid, 'U.S. Marshalls.' I like funny movies, too. 'Old School' and 'The Hangover.' 'The Hangover' was up there; I liked it.

I'm an old school cat. I'm a fan of Richard Pryor and also Redd Foxx.

I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff. So I do very, very little of it.

The truth is that I don't really understand the concept of having an old-fashioned sense of humour, because to me fashion is about clothes not comedy.

In this day and age, when no one can agree on anything, I think it's important that people can come home and turn on the TV and have some good old-fashioned laughs.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

As far as stand-up, a lot of Asians and Chinese are not as apt to stand-up, especially the older generation since they don't even know what stand-up is.

Crank-calling people is the oldest bit in the world.

I like American late-night shows, like Trevor Noah, John Oliver and Bill Maher - I've got them all on series link.

I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter' is about butter carving in Iowa.

I think doing The Improv is a little more ominous than doing a college campus because it was so different than anything I'd done.

Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

My TV comedy idols are the Charles brothers, who did 'Cheers;' Larry Gelbart, who did 'MASH;' and Larry David, who did 'Seinfeld.' When I was 6 or 7-years-old, I'd watch 'Saturday Night Live' and guys like John Belushi and Dan Akroyd became my on-screen heroes.

'Stree' is something fresh and new. Audiences want to see different kind of content on-screen, and 'Stree' is exactly that. It is a unique genre - horror-comedy - which has not been explored much in our country.