Comedy Quotes

In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.

Kurt Braunohler
- Up
- Time
- Game
Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

Chris Hardwick
- People
- 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
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.

Beck
- Up
- Growing
- Action
To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

Kathy Griffin
- Up
- Job
- Comedy
When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.

Jon Favreau
- Time
- Trying
- High
The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

Jim Gaffigan
- Ideas
- Laughing
- Normal
When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

Amy Poehler
- Comedy
- Pregnant
- Sombrero