Quotes About Comedy

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie,' is as funny as it gets.

Amy [ Schumer] is a really, really hilarious writer.She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor is really similar.

I was always pretty funny with my friends.

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

Marriage is great. It'll calm you down - that and neutering.

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

So many funny things happen to me everyday I should have a TV show.

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

As I get older, the character evolves tremendously because I'm married and have kids now and realize certain things are not funny anymore. I threw them out of my act.

Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

I have little sister Lola, she is small and very funny.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw.

I always remember loving Even Stevens - that show was so brilliant and funny and smart.

Robin [Williams], he's pretty dynamic. I had a lot of fun but I also felt like there was no onus on me to be funny.

David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.