Quotes About Comedy

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.

When you truly have fun on the set it translates into a funny show on tv.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?

When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

The British are so funny.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.

When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own show when I grew up. And it's going to be funny.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.