Quotes About Comedy

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!

I'm always ready for TV. I don't have to edit my jokes - when you work clean, you can work anywhere.

The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it.

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

I'd never really done comedy before Community, so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

It makes it really hard to just go to a dinner party because, in my work life, I'm surrounded by the funniest people, ever. I'm really spoiled. I laugh a lot, in my day.

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.

If only opening a Vitamin Water could be classified as working out.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

My manager came up with the name 'State of the Industry,' and it was just one of those things. It just took off. Well, I don't know about 'took off.' I'm not in the stratosphere.

What can I say? I was there at the right place and with the right people. My theatre background helped a lot in shaping my comic streak.

I love and enjoy playing characters with a comic streak.

I like comics like Janeane Garofalo who is very stream of conscious in an honest way.

I really love 'Real Housewives.' It's like the, you know, comedy stuff that's, like, intentionally funny. Like, I love 'Nathan for You,' that Comedy Central show. It's just brilliant. My friend Bill Eichner has a show called 'Billy on the Street' that I write for, and even if I didn't write for it, I'd still love it.

Until you get left for Mr. Bean, you don't realise how frequently he pops up. There's a shop two streets from my house that sells masks of his face. There's nowhere where I'm going to go that he's not there.