Comedy Quotes
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One reason of Andy Griffith Show popularity is because of the formula. It had comedy, but it also had tender moments. The other reason is because it was therapeutic. It helped people relax and unwind.
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I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.
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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.
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Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.
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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.
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I've never eaten a Hot Pocket and then afterwards been, I'm glad I ate that. I'm always like, I'm gonna die.
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It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.
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It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.
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I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.
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I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.
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Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
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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.
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Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge. How much are you willing to take on for your character?
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Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.
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To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.
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On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.
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Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.
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Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it's lovely playing a man who, in his heart and soul, is a gentle man. And he's wounded and complicated.
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I have done 'Gutar-Gu,' which was a silent comedy show.
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None of my comedy depended on looks. I never did tons of fat jokes.
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I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a lot of physical comedy. That was my thing. I was a physical comedian. I did anything and everything from running on a treadmill, I can paint a picture on stage of anything.
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I was trying to be a clinical psychologist for years. But I kept getting stuck in comedy.
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I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.
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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.
