Comedy Quotes - Page 8

I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!

Good comedy is ageless.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

I only direct in self-defense.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators.