Comedy Quotes

• I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile.

  

  Dat Phan
  • Trying
  • Winning
  • Shocked

• Before comedy, I worked at a tech company, and before that, I worked on Wall Street. And, honestly, I've never really been sexually harassed.

  

  Michelle Wolf
  • Before
  • Honestly
  • Sexually

• People used to make fun of alternative comedy because sometimes it would be someone being funny, and sometimes it was a crazy man with a flute making no sense. And it's very easy to be like, yeah, that's not really comedy.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Comedy
  • Dying
  • Tough

• The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Comedy
  • Pain
  • Reason

• I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Comedy
  • Actor

• I like to watch and perform the kind of comedy that comes out of the situation - where the character is really serious and in a tough situation and doesn't realize that the situation is comic.

  

  Judge Reinhold
  • Character
  • Like
  • Serious

• I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Mindset

• I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Childhood
  • Darkness

• Donald Trump is making decisions that affect people's day-to-day life, and he's constantly, constantly making some crazy announcement. It's like, "Well, what are we supposed to talk about? The D train? Traffic?" Trump is the one guy that's like, "Yeah, I'll do 90 minutes of live comedy. Seems easy enough."

  

  Michael Che
  • Crazy
  • Decision
  • Train

• I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Taught
  • Proposal

• I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Kind
  • Dark
  • Secret

• A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• Everybody that you can think of that does comedy, I have met or worked with almost all of them.

  

  Cameron Esposito
  • Comedy
  • Everybody
  • Can

• Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

  

  Steve Coogan
  • Reality
  • Comedy
  • Truthful

• The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Comedy
  • Fox
  • Simpsons

• I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Fame
  • Comic
  • Heroic

• I love comedy. It's where my heart is.

  

  Declan Lowney
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Comedy

• For me, I believe comedy's about taking risks, taking chances, working in a safe environment where you're comfortable making a fool of yourself. It's so critical, especially in comedy, to just have all those right pieces in place.

  

  Michael Spiller
  • Believe
  • Environment
  • Comfortable

• I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said, look, when you're the big person, when you're the rich person, poor people can say stuff about you, but it's downright wrong and brutal for rich people to beat up on poor people. He said people who are larger can lampoon people who are skinnier, but not the opposite.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Night
  • Rich
  • Poor

• I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Community
  • Support
  • Watches

• I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Mean
  • Realizing
  • Laughing

• Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Writing
  • Drama
  • Scripts

• I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.

  

  Negin Farsad
  • Comedy
  • Profession
  • Narcissistic

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