I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like.
A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.
Comedy Central made their own awards show. They were named best comedy channel.
Why does Louis CK get named Comedy Person of the Year? I should be named Comedy Person of the Year just so I can parlay it into another few weeks of road work.
When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.
I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.
It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.
Comedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama.
Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.
It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.
When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.
I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.
Comedy is a serious business. It's frustrating when I can't find the right thing that makes the crew laugh. If I don't make them laugh, I get very disappointed in myself. You don't really have a live audience, so you just depend on the crew to let you know if you're doing something funny.
The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.
I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.
I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.
Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.
'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.
I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.
It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
You can't do comedy with a beard.
Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.
I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
