Comedy Quotes · Page 44

I had always wanted to do comedy, but didn't know where to start - all I knew was that Edinburgh was where…

— Lolly Adefope

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not…

— Todd Phillips

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

— Eric Andre

When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice…

— Chris Rock

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the…

— Robin Williams

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around…

— Larry Wall

I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started…

— Denis Leary

I think everybody has a point where they're not going to cross that line. There were a couple of things with Comedy…

— Jillian Bell

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up…

— Illeana Douglas

If all you have is satire, your show will close. Even if all you have is comedy, your show will close. The…

— Robert Lopez

Comedy is saving me.

— Valerie Harper

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

— Claire McCaskill

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really…

— Jonah Hill

I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way…

— Allison Tolman

It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must…

— Robert Orben

Even going on stage is a service because it brings people up from thinking about their lost job or their lost spouse…

— Lisa Lampanelli

Of course, my whole theory of comedy is based in reality. The funniest stuff comes from real life.

— Philip Rosenthal

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy…

— Mike Birbiglia

I was always the Class Clown and over time became very good at it. I started doing comedy on stage at the…

— Bill Engvall

Approaching a comedy character is fun because you get to sit down with the director and ask, "What makes you laugh?" Then…

— Matthew Lewis

We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get…

— Brian Henson

I would describe my comedy as my skewed comic perception of life.

— John Pinette

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field

— Jerry Stiller

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours…

— Sarah Silverman

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode.…

— Sophie Thompson