Quotes About Comedy

She gets naughty with her Pilates body And she thinks it's really funny when her nose goes bloody

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

I have to tell you I enjoy Jon Stewart. That's the truth. I actually think he's very funny. I've paid to see him do his stand-up routine.

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: "First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package."

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

I knew a girl so ugly, she had a face like a saint-a Saint Bernard!