Comedy Quotes - Page 59

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.

I'm the Forrest Gump of comedy.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

I'm a big comedy fan, and a fan of films.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

Everything I do, in the middle of it, I lose all objectivity. The business of comedy is kind of ridiculous in that respect. Your job is to have a lot of fun in a jar, then sell it. There's something inherently illogical and impossible about that, but that being said, this is as good as it gets.

That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

I don't think there are hour comedies, but if there were, I would have been open to it.

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

Fat is where comedy is stored.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I'm a big comedy nerd, so I'm always looking for the chance to be funny.

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.