Comedy Quotes - Page 27

I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing.

Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

You can say things in a comedy that you never can say in a drama.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I think comedy Ive learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

Comedy is what keeps us alive.

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing.

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I thought, you know you're at a bad university when your commencement speaker is Whitey Bulger.

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way. And when you're filming, the thing comedy depends on becomes a much more difficult commodity. The thing you depend on is spontaneity.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

You'll laugh at the comedy of errors that is my life.