Comedy Quotes

• I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

  

  T.I.
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Lines

• I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

  

  Darlene Cates
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Respect

• I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

  

  Matthew Fox
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Single

• I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

  

  Charles S. Dutton
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Hand

• I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

  

  Kato Kaelin
  • Comedy

• I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.

  

  Riaad Moosa
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Should

• My first time on TV doing stand-up, I actually did this show in Holland called 'The Comedy Factory' hosted by Jorgen Raymann. It was in 2006 in Holland. It was amazing. I had only been doing stand-up for four years, and I booked that gig through the Just For Laughs Montreal festival, and they flew me out and put me up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Show

• Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Summer

• Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Comedy

• When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• It's not hard to be a woman in comedy as long as you're also a writer. You have to create your opportunity.

  

  Kristen Schaal
  • Long
  • Opportunity
  • Comedy

• Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

  

  Burt Ward
  • Children
  • Why
  • Business

• I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Time
  • Home
  • Comedy

• Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

  

  David R. Ellis
  • Comedy

• People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • People
  • Comedy

• I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Remember
  • Jokes

• I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Family

• I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a cult movie, more of a black comedy with some horror elements in it. It kind of went over the top.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Dog

• I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect them to be bored and just stare at you blankly. And that's exactly what you'll get at a comedy club. If you can toughen up with a cow audience, then you'll never be worried with a human audience.

  

  Kristen Schaal
  • Up
  • Great
  • Training

• In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • World
  • House
  • Political

• Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Life
  • Live
  • American

• I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Comedy
  • Producers
  • Sensibility

• I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

  

  Dave Attell
  • Up
  • Comedy

• The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is. You have to really take some shots, and I've walked away with some bumps and bruises.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Comedy
  • Fall

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