Quotes About Comedy

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

There are very few comics that understand about exciting the crowd, and that's what I always prided myself on: giving a more confident macho attitude towards delivering material.

My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own.

Cats, of course, are easier to make fun of. The cutest cat is still a freak. Where dogs are sympathetic, almost tragic, figures, cats are pure comedy. Dogs are your buddies, cats are entertainment They're like a TV show. There's nothing funnier than when a cat falls off of something. When a dog falls down a couple of stairs, you rush to it and console it. But when a cat does it, it's funny—you point at it and laugh (which they don't like, incidentally).

What was that joke about a guy being so thin he had to stand in the same place twice to throw a shadow?

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

maybe somebody finally shot the dog.

Molly squeaked and clicked (the clicks were the hardest) something back, which she hoped was "Hello." What she actually said was "My teeth are green," but the porpoise was too polite to point that out.

Other useful commands to teach your dog are 'stay,' 'heel,' 'remove your snout from that person's groin,' 'stop humping the Barcalounger,' 'do not bark violently for two hours at inanimate objects such as a flowerpot,' ' do not eat poop,' and 'if you must eat poop, then at least refrain from licking my face afterward'.

He stepped forward, and as he did the left side of his coconut brassiere slipped down, revealing his left nipple. He shoved the coconut back into place. He didn't want to look unprofessional.

Some of my close friends could easily be deceased; this would not have a serious effect on our relationship.

I was clinging to this tree so passionately that I might very well have committed an act of photosynthesis with it.

When I read this, naturally my reaction as a concerned American was hahahahahahahahaha.

Did you hear about the toilet being stolen from the police station? The cops have nothing to go on.

There are things I've given up on Like recording funny answering machine messages. It's part of growing older And the human race as a group has matured along the same lines. It seems our comedy dates the quickest. If you laugh out loud at Shakespeare's jokes I hope you won't be insulted if I say you're trying too hard. Even sketches from the original Saturday Night Live seem slow-witted and obvious now.

Until a person learns to laugh at himself, though, his life will be a tragedy – at least that's the way he'll see it.