I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

Id like to do a romantic comedy like Notting Hill, which is one of my favorite movies.

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

If an audience is loud and in a party mode, that's an audience that can absorb comedy.

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

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.

Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.

I've lived (in LA) for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't anymore.

I'm not a fan of stand-up comedy, personally. But some of them are incredibly skilled.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

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

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

I'm a clown. I'm a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

Maybe in 10 years,I'll only be doing "classical" comedy. Or crashing my car into trees.

I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.

I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.

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

I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.

I don't think there's anything more scary than being forced into doing stand-up comedy.

Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

'What About Bob' is my all-time favorite, and I think I've always been prone to comedy.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

You see in comedy - performance is the cake and dialogue is like the icing on that cake.

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.

Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

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