Comedy Quotes

• Sometimes I - with comedy, it's like someone liking you in high school. They either do, or they don't. And when they don't, they don't. And that's it. There are no appeals. You show up, and you're like, 'Hi! I'm -' and you stumble, and they're like, 'It's over.'

  

  John Mulaney
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Up
  • Long
  • Comedy

• None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us, who rejected us and who made fun of the way we ran. Without you we never would have gone into comedy.

  

  Steven Levitan
  • Comedy
  • Winners
  • Bullies

• I like comedy as a group sport.

  

  Maya Rudolph
  • Comedy

• I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

  

  Kunal Nayyar
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Obstacles

• Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.

  

  Alessandra Mastronardi
  • Comedy
  • Personal
  • Cultural

• Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

  

  Denis Leary
  • True
  • Comedy

• If you look at shows like 'Def Comedy Jam' in its heyday, there were so many really funny, talented black comics that never would have gotten on that show because they just weren't doing comedy that fit that mold.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Black
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.

  

  Loni Love
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Honor

• What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Fun
  • Reality
  • Drama

• When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, "Gee, that's like Uncle David", or "That's like a friend of mine.". And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.

  

  Sid Caesar
  • Fun
  • Friend
  • Buffoon

• I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated.

  

  Bobby Lee
  • Why
  • Comedy
  • Texas

• I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.

  

  Dennis Miller
  • Up
  • God
  • Trust

• Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

  

  Jonathan Banks
  • Comedy
  • Difficult
  • Good Time

• I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write a film that's not in the 'Wimpy' universe, but I know it will be difficult to create something from scratch. But I love creating good comedy for kids, so I hope to have another successful venture in the future!

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Good
  • Job
  • Kids

• I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • People
  • Why
  • Community

• Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.

  

  Valerie Faris
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • Comedy

• Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • May
  • Comedy
  • Hilarious

• I'm probably going to go more the feature film route for a while, just so I have more time on my hands. If I did go back to television, I'd do a comedy, a half hour. Or I'd go back on an hour long if it was ensemble, if I had a smaller role, if I could work less days.

  

  Ally Walker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Funny
  • Bullying

• The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Nice

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