Quotes About Comedy

The way you turn a sad story around, you should be a comedian! You're the funniest person I know.

Now it's like we on a highway to hell." He added, "At least we have Bill Cosby.

she thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

While I was explaining to my own doctor that I was planning to undertake some serious exercise, I happened to mention that I thought I had lost quite a bit of weight since my last physical. "You didn't lose it," he said. "It just slipped around to your rear where you can't see it.

Rule of Improv Comedy: Be as present and observant as possible so you can see where an interaction is coming from, and where it wants to go. If you were to analyze really successful improv comedians like Jim Carrey, you will notice that he have a great knack for being in the moment.

Rule of Improv Comedy: React to everything put in front of you, because it was probably put there for a reason.

Rule of Improv Comedy: Don't force others to answer broad questions because it puts a conversational burden on them and interrupts banter.

was just unable to follow the very, simple rules of improv comedy because I was too self-conscious. It was the classic case of being too in your own head, which fuels the cycle of self-consciousness and impaired performance.

Improv comedy above all else teaches flow, and the ability to make something out of nothing – both of those things in pursuit of a common shared goal of a lasting interaction and deep connection with the people involved.

Rule of Improv Comedy: Provide specific details for people to relate to, react to, and run with.

Rule of Improv Comedy: Never lead with "No." because it disregards the direction that someone wants to go and makes it more difficult to work towards a common, shared goal.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

Need a poo, Todd." "Shut up, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it.

Halfpenny a head. That's right. Anyone without a head gets in free. Thank you, sir.

I'm looking for a trophy husband, myself," said Mandi. "Yeah, but she has trouble getting them to stay up on the mantle," I said.

Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?

Mark Twain made black people look like buffoons," [says Michael]. Mort doesn't look up. He doesn't know what we're talking about, but that doesn't stop him from joining the conversation. "Michael," says Mort, "Mark Twain made everybody look like buffoons. He was an equal opportunity buffoon maker.

A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd.

If anyone asked why we decided to start a family when we did, I said, 'Most couples get kittens for their kids to play with; we decided to get a baby for our cats to play with.' That wasn't true, of course, but it was good for a laugh.

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

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.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.