Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make the movie you want to do." Especially in a comedy because comedy is so tone specific.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

I only direct in self-defense.

I played comedies and dramas.

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in me, so it wouldn't be a natural fit. But I love the world of science fiction, and I love the world of technology and science too.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

I really think everything is fair game.

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

I really like just super dry comedy.

I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations." And then I started to realize that I wanted to mix it up a bit, so I started to doing songs, and I had a little keyboard onstage and would bring in little props. Then I thought about the idea of talking about a character and becoming the character onstage. So, it sort of morphed into being stand-up that was more character based, and I found that's the stuff I got the better reaction from and was more exciting for me.

I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.

I stopped doing romantic comedies. I just stopped. They're terrible. They're bad. They're not funny and so they shouldn't be a romantic comedy because most of the time they're not romantic. They shouldn't be called romantic comedy.

It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

I think comedy is on an organic upsurge right now because when I started, it was 1978 at The Comedy Store and Letterman had just stopped emceeing his morning show.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.