Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

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

Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.

You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

You can kind of feel when things are going to work out

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

You can only be embarrassed if you allow yourself to be embarrassed. If you embrace it and just accept that you're kind of a klutz, and you're able to make it into comedy gold.

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.

You can't have good comedy without drama in it.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.

You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke. It has to be funny, so usually all the things in the background don't matter.

You do what you're supposed to do, but you have to be honest about what they're doing. When you do a comedy show on a network the problem is there are going to be a bunch of people who aren't comedians that are going to tell you what's funny.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.