Quotes About Comedy

I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

The room is so small, when I put the key in, I broke the window!

My wife loves to shop at Bloomingdale's. I bring her mail there twice a week.

I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

The hotel I'm in has a lovely closet. A nail.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.

The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

From my dad ... I think we have a similar sense of humor. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I think he's funny!

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

Not often is there as much of a vulnerable side as there is a funny side.

It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.

I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.