Quotes About Comedy

Yeah, I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!

Sometimes I was so funny I couldn't stand myself.

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

I just think [Gangster Party Line] is funny and stupid and all the dudes in it are real dudes. It's just a funny construction.

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

'Chappie' would be like 'RoboCop,' but hilarious. If you mixed 'Robocop' with 'E.T.' and it was... funny, that's what it is.

Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

For me, I've worked hard for people to think I'm funny.

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny."

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.