I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do…

When you're small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot.

— Tim Conway

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

— Larry David

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

— Lisa Lampanelli

What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the…

— Patrick Dempsey

When I was a little kid, I was a huge fan of 'The Kids in the Hall.' They were like my boy band. I…

— Weyes Blood

Some people get into comedy because they love comedy. Then there are people who have a message and have realised that if they can…

— Aisling Bea

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

— Brian Regan

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

— Chris Hardwick

[the Ghost Team] is an ensemble comedy. It's about people who are searching for meaning in their lives, and they end up doing this…

— David Krumholtz

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

— Israel Horovitz

There are people that have only seen me in dramatic stuff and they go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do comedy," and then…

— Colin Hanks

The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it.…

— Negin Farsad

I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's…

— Seth Gordon

What I love is the comedy of the body. It's a little highfalutin', but you can even say pre-verbal comedy. People laugh differently at…

— Bill Irwin

There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think but I'm…

— Jim Jefferies