Comedy Quotes - Page 3

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

All comedy comes from a dark place.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy!

He listens well who takes notes.

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

Do unto others, then run

The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.

Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure.

Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they still wanted to try something else. They came to me and said they wanted to do something that was internet focused and created original content on their site, so they could compete with the funny or dies and what not. So that was the premise, and they gave us a small amount of money, $5000, and from there it turned into the show.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy.

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

Comedy is a camouflage for depression.

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.