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

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy.

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

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

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

We've talked about a sitcom and a comedy drama. It's getting the right project and working with the right people.

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

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

I watch a lot of YouTube videos. I like game play channels like the Game Grumps. But I mostly watch sketch comedy.

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love Childrens Hospital. That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

Stand-up comedy is still a very male-dominated world. You look at a set list and maybe there's one woman on there.

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

In the beginning of my career, all I did was drama, and I couldn't get arrested doing comedy; nobody would hire me!

I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.

I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

Comedy can be fun no matter what you're playing small or big comedy part. It always has the potential to be a blast.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

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

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.

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