Quotes About Comedy

I've finally found my home - as Lt. Frank Drebin.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

Satire today has become a flat 'tyre'.

I'm lucky I'm a comedian, 'cause otherwise my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.

When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.

I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.

The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

With Late Night Show I can begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert.I just hope I don't find him on Ashley Madison.

I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.