Quotes About Comedy

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."

God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

R.I.P. Jerry LewisYou made us laugh in life. Now you have a chance to make God and all of his angels laugh too.Take care and I shall see you in the next life.

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

I don't know if I'm the husky guy, but I'm the sexy guy who's a good kisser .

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

People should be happy to see you when you show up to a club because you're a good person. And stop caring about what the industry is "looking for". Just say what you think is funny. .

If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.