Comedy Quotes
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I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.
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Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.
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As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.
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Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.
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Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
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If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.
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I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.
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I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.
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I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
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I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.
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I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.
