I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.
Few years ago [Donald] Trump was being roasted by Comedy Central. They always have rules about things that you can't joke about. Donald Trump's rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn't joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.
Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick.
There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.
I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.
When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.
It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.
I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.
Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.
Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US. Eddie Murphy blew me away with his film Delirious.
Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.
There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has a great set-up, I will go as far as somebody will let me.
Stand-up comedy is still a very male-dominated world. You look at a set list and maybe there's one woman on there.
I don't think there's anything more scary than being forced into doing stand-up comedy.
I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.
I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.
As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.
I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.
I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
