Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

One thing I'm a big fan of is the theater of the absurd. That's what I come from, that's what I love to do more than anything. What I love about absurdity is the words "comedy" and "drama" get thrown out the window and it's just life, which is absurd.

One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.

On these feature films there are people on the staff who can draw 100 times better then I can, and animate better then I can, and light better then I can, write comedy better then I can. I basically am in the middle of kind of a creative typhoon and I'm just kind of talking the film up on to the screen. Minute to minute, meeting by meeting, day by day.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.

People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

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

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol

Selling pot allowed me to get through college and make enough money to start off in comedy.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

Since I started making movies, I've had to hear a million times, "When are you going to do a comedy?" I think I feel more comfortable in another kind of movie.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.