Quotes About Comedy

I went to a garage sale. 'How much for the garage' 'It's not for sale.'

I have a fax machine with "fax waiting".

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.

Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: "No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat."

You know who does have a funny bone in her body? Your mom every night for a dollar.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

My movies before tend to be just funny. But it wasn't a conscious thing I was looking for at all.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Two cannibals eating a clown. One asks the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?'

Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

All the religions are super funny to me.

Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be laughing for no reason.