Quotes About Comedy

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

Making people laugh is the greatest experience.

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

I've had a very positive experience in L.A. in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.

Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.

"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.

If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.

A ni... so broke these days sumbody rob me they just be practicing.

If being broke is a joke then you a funny ni....

Ever looked at your best friend and wonder: Why the hell aren't we comedians?

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it.

Something of an accomplished acrobat, Burgess managed to not only stay on Austin, but race around his shoulders and then down the back of his shirt. That only served to set Austin off more. He fell onto the grass and did a bizarre version of stop, drop, and roll. Except there was no fire. Just a fox squirrel. Every turn Austin did left the bulge that was better known as Burgess moving around under his shirt, easily avoiding being smushed. "Get it off me!

If all relationships started badly, Prince Charming would disappear from every fairy tale ever written and romantic comedies would be filed under horror.

I think a lot of comedy comes from hypersensitivity, from being too vulnerable to deal with life and needing to preemptively protect yourself.

Years ago I did a particularly angry set onstage. I talked about AIDS, the end of the world, and how silly and hopeless life was. A guy came up to me after the show and asked, "Why comedy?" That was all he said. I was dumbfounded.

Comedians in their infancy are generally selfish, irresponsible, emotionally retarded, morally dubious, substance-addicted animals who live out of boxes and milk crates. They are plagued with feelings of failure and fraudulence. They are prone to fleeting fits of manic grandiosity and are completely dependent on the acceptance and approval of rooms full of strangers, strangers the comedian resents until he feels sufficiently loved and embraced. Perhaps I am only speaking for myself here.

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The idea of spending another six hours with Leon and his farts was more than I could take.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.