Quotes About Comedy

I would love to work with Kristin Wiig one day. I find her hilarious, and I totally idolize her.

In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.

I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.

I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor.

Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.

I'm just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.

Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.

Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.

My wife and I got remarried. Our divorce didn't work out.

You might be a redneck if you work with a shirt off... and so does your husband.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.