Comedy Quotes - Page 9

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.

To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.

Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.

My comedy is not mine. It's a gift. I'm not that smart.

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.