Quotes About Comedy

For me, Miranda has always been a much deeper character than the three-minute videos I put online.

When I started out, Jay Leno used to say you're not as good as you think you can be until at least your sixth year. I was like, what the hell is he talking about? 'Cause I was in my third year, and I thought, 'I got this.' I kept videos of myself performing, and in my fifth year I watched my third year and realized he couldn't have been more right.

When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.

I must say that I am rather partial to funny dog videos.

I'm not saying that I don't like the stuff I put out into the world, because I genuinely enjoy my videos and think they are funny. What I'm saying is that I embrace the fact that I have a punchable face, and that if I could punch myself without feeling it, I would.

I've made a lot of crazy comedy videos and said a lot of crazy things. If it's too offensive, I apologize and move on, but I do comedy.

I love The Onion videos, those are amazing.

'Vietnam Veedu' is nothing if you compare Nagesh's other works. He is the definition of humor in India.

I've been doing the Vietnamese nail lady impressions since my mom first took me to get my nails done when I was 12.

A lot of women do stand-up as a gateway into acting, but I love stand-up, and to be a good stand-up, you have to go on the road a lot. It means going to places in America where they've never seen a Vietnamese person in their life.

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.

Stand-up will always be my favorite and the most important thing that I do. I view everything else as free money.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.

I'm just one person with one experience, so really on 'Question Time' and in my comedy day job I just say: 'Hello, I'm Rosie, I'm disabled, this is my view of the world.' If you agree with that, if you can take similarities with that, great, but I never assume that I'm grand enough to speak for a fifth of the country.

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.

A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form.

Besides, marrying you is the only way I can have Burton as my butler.

As a professional comedian, it's my theory that people get into comedy because there's something missing in their own personal life, and they need that void filled through laughter and acceptance onstage.

In general, comedy just isn't an environment that lends itself toward happiness.

Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.

The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man; for as to the stage, love is even matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury.

I'd love to go out with you, but I'd hate to deprive some village of its idiot.