Quotes About Comedy

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

You really got him!" Gertie yelled. "Holy crap! I ate a bug. Jeez, someone get some mouthwash. Gah! I ate another one.

If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?" I stared at her. "Other people?

Gertie hit the brakes and tried to stop, but she tripped over a lip in the sidewalk and went sprawling right into the burro, then hit the pavement, her tutu skirt flipped up over her back, exposing her camouflage underwear. Tiny swung his head around to see what all the racket was and launched off the car door, setting off down the sidewalk toward the burro-Gertie wreck at high speed.

Now she sorta resembled the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers ' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

You asked that kid to follow me around the mall and throw soda on me?

If two heads are better than one, then what about double chins? On that note, I will help myself to seconds.

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.

I have two friends, Steve and Martin. But I'd happily replace both for the friendship of Steve Martin.

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

With comedy and wanting to make people laugh,] when you're a child, all you want is ANY kind of laugh. You get them to laugh, and great! - you've succeeded. And then it's "How FAST can I get them to laugh?" "How LONG can I get them to laugh?", "How HARD can I get them to laugh?". And then it becomes: "Can I laugh at something that makes them uncomfortable?", "Can I get them to laugh at something that challenges their beliefs?

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

There are people who can make us laugh even when they don't intend to, largely because their very presence pleases us, and so it's easy enough to set us off, simply seeing them and being in their company and hearing them is all it takes, even if they're not saying anything very extraordinary or are even deliberately spouting nonsense, which we nevertheless find funny.

Cake and tea or death?

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.