Quotes About Comedy

So...I'm the funny one? I'm the funny sidekick ? . . . That's no way to talk about anyone! To say they're just hangers-on to someone more important .

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.

CHRIS GRABENSTEIN is the coauthor (with James Patterson) of the number one New York Times bestseller I Funny.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

He decided to try television, but it was all sex and zombies, serial killers and sad cops. The comedies weren't funny.

Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec ' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny ' if he wasn't.

The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

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.

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

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

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

Hollywood's just not funny.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

You know what a platonic friend is to a woman? It's like a dick in a glass case. In case of emergency break open glass.

Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.

If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy." ~ Jon Stewart

After a piece ran, a guy claimed I claimed I was from CNN. I never said that. But if you make a man comedically look like Hitler and it turns out that he is a retired lawyer with a lot of time on his hands, you're going to get sued. That's the lesson for today, children. STEVE

The outlandish 2000 election and Bush's victory had come along at the perfect time, helping Stewart, the correspondents, and the writers sharpen The Daily Show's tone of bemused mockery. The next world-changing events would have just as big an effect—and a late-night, basic cable comedy show would become an unlikely outlet for mourning, an antidote to anxiety, and gradually a center of principled, patriotic dissent.

If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy." LARRY

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.