Quotes About Comedy

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

Throwing lamps at people who need to lighten the f*ck up.

I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster!

Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

At the end to death I must go, Finishing a real tragic and funny show.

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.

I'm not on a diet. And it's funny cause people go 'Well, then why do you drink diet soda?' So I can eat regular cake.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

He who laughs most, learns best.

It is always exciting when you find someone who is really enthusiastic about being half of a comedy team.

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

I'm in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I get drawn on the subject of race, it's too close to home for me and I can't articulate what I'm trying to get across.

There are all kinds of humor and I have largely indulged in clean comedy.

As a comedy writer, I work largely from home.

Larry David, he's my hero. I want to be him - I want to act like him - everything.

I don't believe in God but I do believe in Larry David.

I'm a late-night guy.

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.

It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.