Comedy Quotes

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

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

I would never stop watching film. The reason why I say I like the old ones is I like the subject matter better. I thought they had more variety to them, they had more romantic comedies and things that appealed to me more.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

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.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

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

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

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

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

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.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

Dave! Relax! Close your buttcheeks!

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

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

There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

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

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

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.

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

I like comedy as a group sport.

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

Fashion is so over the top.

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed.

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

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

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.