Comedy Quotes - Page 7

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

Comedy is taken care of by a free market.

I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

When I look at comedy, it's all self-expression. I apply that same method to my music. I came up listening to N.W.A and Snoop. Like them, it's in me to express how I feel. You might like it or you might not, but I take that stand.

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]