Quotes About Comedy

I've known Chevy Chase for so long, I actually knew him when he was funny!

If I had blood, I'd blush.

How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.

I've known for quite a while that I was a funny girl.

I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.

One thing you can't pretend to be is funny.

I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.

Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.

A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

I'm 47, my girlfriend's 33; she's 14 years younger than me: Back of the net!