Comedy Quotes

• Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• I remember staying up all night waiting to see the first screening of Cape Fear because you knew that every time Robert DeNiro had a performance it was going to be revelatory. Then DeNiro hit this place, he seemed like he was done with the emotional cost of impaling himself like that, and he dedicated himself to comedy.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Performance
  • I Remember
  • Robert De Niro

• A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • World
  • Comedy

• You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of - at least for me, there's some kind of idea of control.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Comedy
  • Kind
  • Meritocracy

• My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Trying
  • American
  • Funny

• I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Up
  • Time
  • Comedy

• I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Great
  • Long
  • Bad

• Comedy Central was a great network, but 'Chappelle's Show' took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the 'Chappelle' reruns. For BET, the 'Real Husbands of Hollywood' has that same potential.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Great
  • Different
  • Real

• 'Gutur Gu' is a silent comedy, which I had never done. I wanted to do something out of the box. It's exciting, tough, and fun. Dialogues are very important for actors, and to emote without them took some getting used to. It's giving me scope to learn a lot.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Important
  • Done
  • Fun

• Robert Smigel is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches. He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.

  

  Neal Brennan
  • Unique
  • Writer
  • Robert Smigel

• The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Great
  • Dark
  • Thoughts

• I can't imagine not playing Wynonna, because I get to play so many different things. In any given episode, I get drama and comedy and horror and all the notes of life, and very few shows or movies give you that opportunity.

  

  Melanie Scrofano
  • Life
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

  

  Will Gluck
  • Young
  • Roles
  • Actresses

• For me, 'Arrested Development' is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It's so incredibly flawless and perfect.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Perfect
  • Comedy

• I think in the world we need more comedy. I wish so much that we could embrace that side of us more. I love to escape through watching comedy, and I wish for more of that in the future.

  

  Cynthia Stevenson
  • World
  • Future
  • Wish

• The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • World
  • Real
  • Reality

• 'Fresh Meat' is the first comedy thing I've ever done.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
  • Done
  • Comedy

• I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting... for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.

  

  Serinda Swan
  • Running
  • Nice
  • Drama

• The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

  

  David Steinberg
  • Comedy

• You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.

  

  William Shatner
  • Time
  • Imagine
  • Week

• And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Book
  • Team
  • Moon

• Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • Comedy

• I enjoy doing physical comedy. I'd love, you know, them to throw me some shtick that way. I'd love to do that, if they need physical comedy, if they'd let me display my wares that way.

  

  Scott Adsit
  • Comedy
  • Enjoy

• Comedy prepared me for drama. There are a couple techniques you can think of. One of my acting teachers said that comedy is like ping-pong, and drama is tennis. You take things a bit slower, so you do get to breathe more and take some more time.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Drama

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