I thought I was going to be comedy 'Tiger King.'

'Tiger King.' They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they're all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All those people…

— Shaun Ryder

More people are going out to comedy shows than they were before.

— Jimmy Carr

I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because when I…

— James Roday

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

— Bill Hicks

I came to London with a girl. We lived together and split up very quickly. I was on my own in London so started…

— Lee Mack

Interestingly enough, even though my parents didn't necessarily support what I was doing at first, going into comedy, a lot of what they instilled…

— Quinta Brunson

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

— Mary-Louise Parker

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life,…

— Bob Newhart

I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have…

— Penelope Cruz

I imagined that the outside world was just going to see me as a comedy girl and put me in that box. But there's…

— Ego Nwodim

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

— Mike Birbiglia

Since I started making movies, I've had to hear a million times, "When are you going to do a comedy?" I think I feel…

— Isabel Coixet

I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so…

— Bill Hader

If I'm going to do comedy I sort of want to do my own.

— Lenny Henry

I couldn't make a living as a comic in Ireland and I was watching my friends from college getting good jobs, buying houses, and…

— Ardal O'Hanlon