Comedy Quotes - Page 6

I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if Im paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see whos funniest, with everyone treated equally.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I really think everything is fair game.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

I fart in your general direction.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.