Quotes About Comedy

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow. When I woke up, my pillow was gone.

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already.

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A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.

Two blondes walk into a building. You'd think at least one of them would have seen it.

Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol Burnett Show'. Tim Conway is just... I just watched him so many times do stuff over and over. He's just so amazing.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days.

My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me against their peculiar meanness toward anyone who is different.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

What is life without laughter?

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.

Everybody lives inside his or her movie. Mine had usually seemed a light comedy. Then I noticed the first dead bee on the driveway.

Pirates of Penzance