Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled… — Mel Smith Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of echoing going on in 'Old School.' Mr. Piven, who played the upstart outsider in the 1994 campus… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that… — Eric Mabius Copy Share Image
The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking,… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents.… — John Prine Copy Share Image
To me, as a director and an actor, that's the main thing. "What's the heart of this story? What's the humanity of… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I love dark humor. I love things that are so grounded in life, but just happen to be just a little bit… — Rockmond Dunbar Copy Share Image
There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
On these feature films there are people on the staff who can draw 100 times better then I can, and animate better… — Chris Wedge Copy Share Image
There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
I'm from the suburbs and where I'm from didn't necessarily have people like you see in 'Suburgatory,' but along those lines and… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies.… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that. — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
Doing really abrasive gross-out comedy prepared me for knowing what it feels like to bomb. It's possible to bomb, I've done it.… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
I think in the world we need more comedy. I wish so much that we could embrace that side of us more.… — Cynthia Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel… — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part… — Zach Woodlee Copy Share Image
I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams. — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as… — Rachael Harris Copy Share Image
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already. — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
