Comedy Quotes
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The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.
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I got away from comedy because it wasn't being done in the way that I loved and the way that I could do it. It made me sad because I felt like it wasn't appreciated and no one was writing it so, 'I'll abandon it.
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I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.
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I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.
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People tell me all the time when they meet me, in comedy, they say 'You have that type like Sofia Vergara; you can be like her.' She's beautiful, but she can be ugly, too; she can make ugly faces. She doesn't care. She's very outgoing.
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'Raising Arizona' is maybe my favorite comedy of all time. What's great about it is that as slapstick as it gets, it has great moments of emotion and caring. Them bringing the baby back and Trey Wilson's character. I love that, man.
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'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.
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I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.
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With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.
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In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
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I just adored 'Shaun Of The Dead.' That's a true mashup. That's a real Romero-era zombie movie and a real Gen X indie comedy. That was before zombie movies were cool, before 'Zombieland' and 'I Am Legend,' and now it has become a whole sub-genre.
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There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.
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There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done. Because the comedy I've done is to get to the audience, get them to feel it, or they won't laugh.
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With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
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I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.
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In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
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I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.
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If I am comfortable, I say what I want to. But yes, while doing a comedy show, I am slightly reserved as a person. Since it's scripted, it's not a problem. I can manage.
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Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.
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I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.
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I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.
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The first Emmys I went to was in 1990 when the five nominees for best comedy were 'Designing Women,' 'Golden Girls,' 'Murphy Brown,' 'Cheers,' 'Wonder Years.' Three and a half were created by women.
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I personally have no interest in being a star or a celebrity. I want my stand-up comedy and how I think as a comedian to be recognized and successful.
