Comedy Quotes
-
I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.
-
The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
-
To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.
-
The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.
-
Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And as Scott said, we knew a lot of funny young people who needed a place to do stand-up. And we were in a place, where we were writing so much that we weren't around live comedy so much, so we kind of missed it.
-
There's an art to comedy.
-
If the Author will it, there may be appended to any comedy an afterpiece. Meanwhile, so far as I may judge, the life of Manuel ends here.
-
I love bouncing between different genres. And comedy, obviously, is something I enjoy doing the most and I've had the most success with. But I'm open to all jobs and all genres.
-
I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
-
I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
-
'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.
-
When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
-
There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
-
'Silicon Valley' is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won't pawn it.
-
Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
-
Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.
-
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.
-
I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.
-
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
-
What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
-
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
-
Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.
-
Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.
-
Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.
