Quotes About Comedy

I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice.

People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.

Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

I'm not very good at impersonations.

I think good actors tend to be really funny.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just go to the board meetings.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.