Quotes About Comedy

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

Trying to be funny is one of the hardest things on the planet. I think that's tough for everyone. If you're just naturally funny it's a hell of a lot easier.

Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

I got my wife a mood ring. It works real good! When shes in a good mood it turns blue, but when shes in a bad mood theres a red mark across my forehead

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.

"Doctor, my leg hurts. What can I do?" The doctor says, "Limp!"

Hollywood called me, asking me, "How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?" "$50,000" They called back, "How about $20,000?" I said, "I'll pay it!"

My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

Funny is an attitude.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!

I think the reason I became funny was because if I made people laugh, they would let me keep talking.

So this bloke says to me, "Can I come in your house and talk about your carpets?" I thought "That's all I need, a Je-hoover's witness".

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.