Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.

When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and we all speak the same comedy language.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst. Here's what cheering is: "Look at me!" That's what cheering is. Cheering is not "Hey, I agree with what you're saying"; cheering is "I'm liking this more than anybody else!

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.

When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not.

When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

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

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 have good comedy without drama in it.