Quotes About Comedy

Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's third wife Day.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy

If there are only four possible endings to any story – comedy, tragedy, revenge and forgiveness –

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy, Mom told me. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Snot locker was the funniest name I'd ever heard for a nose.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy," Mom told me. "You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax

I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I kinda feel like an idiot sometimes. Although I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.