Comedy Quotes

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

I would never stop watching film. The reason why I say I like the old ones is I like the subject matter better. I thought they had more variety to them, they had more romantic comedies and things that appealed to me more.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.