Quotes About Comedy

Ruth was funny. Her bowling was awful; she just sort of paddled up to the line and dropped the ball. Plok.

Listen to your political enemies, especially the smart ones, and then figure out a way to make them laugh.

I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.

Im known for impressions and family stories.

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.

Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had.

When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

My own personal rule is to tell jokes that I think the person I'm making them about can laugh at, to go home and tell their family, oh, my gosh.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family, ' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.

I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching.

What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

My father used to beat me with his belt...while it was still on him.

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?