Quotes About Comedy

I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

I'm very drawn to subversive comedy like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman. But at the end of the day, if you want to do great work, you have to pay your dues.

I've been driving in the city for years because, as a stand-up in N.Y.C., you can perform at more comedy clubs a night if you have a car. Getting from club to club by subway is too slow at night and too expensive by cab. So, many comics live far out from Manhattan and drive in every night.

I think if I'm with a friend group, I try to be as funny as possible, and I don't always succeed, obviously.

We love men. We just don't want to see them naked.

And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at

The law is a tedious profession and is relieves the boredom by its own little comedies

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.