Comedy Quotes - Page 51

You do what you're supposed to do, but you have to be honest about what they're doing. When you do a comedy show on a network the problem is there are going to be a bunch of people who aren't comedians that are going to tell you what's funny.

I think stand is better now than it's ever been. I think it's the greatest time ever to do standup comedy.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I still want to do a comedy series.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

Comedy is truth. We should not apologize for it.

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

More people are going out to comedy shows than they were before.

The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.

The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.

You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of - at least for me, there's some kind of idea of control.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.

My comedy is romanticized laziness.

"I got up early because I wanted to." - Nobody

Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod."

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.