Quotes About Comedy

When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.

I love audiences.

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

I never went on auditions because I would be terrible at it, so I just did stand-up.

I get really nervous at auditions. I know how to make people laugh, but auditions just really make me nervous.

If you have any sense, if you're any good at comedy, you come to Austin.

Along my path, I've realized that this comedy/drama balance is something that's really interesting to me, and I feel, like, authentic to my voice.

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

Making people laugh was automatic.

When you do stand-up, it's so autonomous: I can say anything.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

'Panto!' is basically my life. It's not a comedy drama; it's a documentary. I was going to write an autobiography, but I thought I'd write this instead.

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

We did Donald McGill, seaside-postcard stuff - middle of the road.

I wouldn't want my comedy show to hurt anybody. I'm not Donald Trump.

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

When Logo offered me my own comedy special, I said, 'Let's make it a double.'

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

I absolutely love doing comedy, however, of course as an actor, I would love the opportunity to do more dramatic roles.

I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.

There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done. Because the comedy I've done is to get to the audience, get them to feel it, or they won't laugh.