Comedy Quotes
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I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.
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So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.
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I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at memorizing, and it gave me a lot of anxiety. I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.
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I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
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I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.
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Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.
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I'm a huge fan of comedy. I write material whenever I can.
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There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
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My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.
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I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.
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I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.
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I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.
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I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.
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My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'
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I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.
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Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.
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I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.
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I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.
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One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom of speech, we who do should push it as far as we need to.
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As a comedian, Trump is comedy gold, and he almost makes my job too easy... the stuff that comes out of his mouth is a precious commodity.
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I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.
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As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
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When I was young, my dad always let me listen to comedy albums.
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Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.
