It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible. — Johnny Knoxville Copy Share Image
“The funniest part of that joke is, 'say what you will about Hitler.” — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course. — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub;… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
I've got quite a strong drive, and that can be slightly deplorable. Struggling to become a famous comedian - there's something weird… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me. — Tommy James Copy Share Image
“The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up. — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of 'The Hangover,' but I'd love… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you get compared a lot to the… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and… — Denis Norden Copy Share Image
With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
