Comedy Quotes

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

Aziz Ansari
- Up
- America
- Food
'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

Cheyenne Jackson
- Comedy
- Rock
- Opinion

Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'

James Wolcott
- Up
- Comedy
I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.

Jenny Slate
- Important
- Funny
- Comedy
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.

John Bradley-West
- Time
- Long
- School
Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

Jennifer Carpenter
- Long
- Comedy
- Math
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar
- Truth
- Comedy
- The End
I first started as an actor, but there was no money in it, which is why I drifted into comedy.

Bradley Walsh
- Money
- Why
- Comedy