Quotes About Comedy

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill, ' which is one of my favorite movies.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.

The Hills are alive with the sound of CRAP!

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 loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music.

I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?