Comedy Quotes

• The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Great
  • Dark
  • Thoughts

• I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.

  

  Neal H. Moritz
  • Together
  • Action
  • Combination

• When I do comedy, it's not like I'm trying to be funny for folks; I look for the honesty in it. With James Early in 'Dreamgirls,' it was the honesty of it: it was the reality of the moment. You know, I don't know what makes me play sometimes. I really don't. I just do what I do. And that's what I did for 'Sliders,' and that's how I got the job.

  

  Cleavant Derricks
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reality

• I like very straight comedy.

  

  Judge Reinhold
  • Comedy
  • Like

• I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

  

  Louie Anderson
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

  

  Judge Reinhold
  • Comedy
  • Decade

• If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Reason
  • Poor
  • Understood

• I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel room is write a letter. "My dearest Gwendolyn, I arrived by nightfall at the Embassy Suites. It will be a fortnight after my return that this letter shall arrive. Allow me to explain the curious charge at the ledger. It is because I miss thee so much, darling, I accidentally ordered Sorrority Sisters 7."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Funny

• I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

  

  Jez Butterworth
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

  

  David Shrigley
  • Dark
  • Function
  • Bits

• My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Trying
  • American
  • Funny

• When I started comedy, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan. I thought if you did stand-up, you were supposed to know how to act, write, and host. I thought it was all one thing. That's why it doesn't feel like I'm transitioning to acting: because in my stand-up, I do characters all the time.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.

  

  Jon Watts
  • People
  • Comedy

• I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • Different
  • Play
  • Roles

• I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Interesting
  • Comedy
  • Looks

• The first thing I do in the editing room is the 'radio edit,' where you listen to the dialogue and don't even look at the visuals. The rhythm, the music of the comedy, has to work.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Work
  • Music
  • Comedy

• If I'm gonna stay in this world of comedy, then it has to be a really special character to me in a really smart piece of material.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • World
  • Character
  • Smart

• My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm of the sentences, in the shifting tones and the selection of details, in the comedy, the sadness, and the confusion. For the space of an essay, I'm the air you breathe, everywhere and nowhere. With a personal essay, I don't think you'd want it any other way. You ought to have the sense of an encounter, the impression of having met someone. In my essays, for better or worse, that someone is me.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Character
  • Breathe
  • Sadness

• I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Night
  • Comedy

• 'Friends' is easy to dismiss, but it's really good television - the art with which those actors play with comedy shouldn't be denigrated. And they also know how to play irony, which I think a lot of English actors might find quite difficult.

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • Good
  • Art
  • Friends

• I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Comedy

• Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Comedy

• A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was a blast.

  

  Reece Thompson
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Start

• The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  

  James Thurber
  • Important
  • Home
  • Success

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