Quotes About Comedy

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

I got an ant farm. Them fellas didn't grow anything. Hey, how about some celery? Plus, if I tore your legs off, you would look like snowmen.

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.

I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.