Comedy Quotes
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My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.
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Comedy, such a lovely lady, she'll pick you up, you your feeling blue.
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Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.
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I don't think comedy will ever die.
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I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element to that.
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There's a thing in comedy where you take one step into a bad idea, but if you take 10, then it becomes a good idea again.
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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
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People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
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I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.
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I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
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I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me.
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
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Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.
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I lasted seven years as a journalist, and I've been doing comedy for twenty years.
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I would never quit comedy to make money. I've been doing it, like, 30 years. I still love it. That's my life.
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That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.
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Comedy is here to bring joy to the world, whether you want to hear the curse words or not.
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I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.
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I'm a student of Comedy Central. It launched careers: Wanda Sykes and even Kevin Hart. The first time I was introduced to him, he was on Comedy Central. It puts you on the map... Hollywood knows now.
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I think it might be interesting to give an Emmy to an outstanding background performance in either a comedy or drama series.
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Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.
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I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.
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Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.
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I am interested in complex characters who are difficult and have numerous sides. But I would love to do a comedy role - something maybe 'Monty Python'-esque.
Eugene Simon
