Quotes About Comedy

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.

That's a very nice, generic-sounding question: "When did you know you were funny?" But it pre-supposes that I think I'm really hilarious. So that's kind of a loaded question.

It got hard to juggle the funny on set and then even harder in post-production.

When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

My ex-boyfriend can round last night, which was weird because I didn't know he was in a coma.

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

I think the word 'pregnant' is funny.

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

I'm a huge fan of Adam Sandler and used to have Adam Sandler nights when I was younger. And he's so funny on the set.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

10 years ago, I would've host Saturday Night Live. But to me, the show has declined. For some reason, humor isn't what it was. It just, to me, it's not as funny as it was, not as sharply satirical.

When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.