Comedy Quotes - Page 60

Comedy is great; you get to laugh! Life is so serious.

I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not necessarily in his comedies.

My background is in musical comedy.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine.

It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.

Comedy people are always present because they're always looking for the funniest version of whatever the line is. Sometimes theater people, where scripts are sacrosanct, aren't quite as present in scenes. That's a massive generalization, but in my experience, I find that comedy people are great to improvise with and to do scenes with because they're there.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations." And then I started to realize that I wanted to mix it up a bit, so I started to doing songs, and I had a little keyboard onstage and would bring in little props. Then I thought about the idea of talking about a character and becoming the character onstage. So, it sort of morphed into being stand-up that was more character based, and I found that's the stuff I got the better reaction from and was more exciting for me.

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

If there's one regret I have of my time in comedy it's that I really I was so obsessed with improv for so many years and I exclusively did improv for the first 6 years or 7 years. I was doing comedy and then I started doing solo work and stand up, a bit of writing, making videos, and really going into it on that end.

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.