Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every day in my life.

Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

Everything I do, in the middle of it, I lose all objectivity. The business of comedy is kind of ridiculous in that respect. Your job is to have a lot of fun in a jar, then sell it. There's something inherently illogical and impossible about that, but that being said, this is as good as it gets.

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

Every week for me was the same audience, and every week they heckled me. The better I got at comedy, the better the audience was at heckling me. But it helped me with my joke writing.

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

Fashion is so over the top.

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

Few years ago [Donald] Trump was being roasted by Comedy Central. They always have rules about things that you can't joke about. Donald Trump's rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn't joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.

For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

For instance, our music, They Might Be Giants, has this element of humor, which is probably the most uptight part of what we include in our music, because we're in part very self-conscious guys, and we want our music to stand up to the test of time, not just be visceral comedy records. We love humor and comedy, but there's this aspect to it that runs counter to what is included in most music.

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade and I loved those people.

Fred Silverman, the head of ABC, he offered me a lot of comedy series but I told him I'd already been the best comedy series around, "The Odd Couple," and so when he saw that I did Quincy he called my agent and said, Jack turns me down? All my good series and he ends up playing an undertaker." And this was the HEAD of ABC series.

Fat is where comedy is stored.

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.

Figure out what to do, then take a nap.

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

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

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Gentlemen, start your egos!

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

Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you’ve come to expect from Jessica Alba.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Great comedy calls large matters into question.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.

Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.