Comedy Quotes - Page 14

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

You can't have good comedy without drama in it.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

Comedy is in my blood. Too bad it's not in my act.

Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.

The only weapon I've got is comedy