Always Quote by Adam McKay

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is…

— Cheech Marin

Everybody in comedy has something like that happen to them: They bomb, or no one shows up. You're like, 'Hey, I'm funny, trust me!'…

— Thomas Middleditch

It is utterly asinine that people continually go to comedy shows without bothering to see if their sensibilities line up with the comedians.

— Phoebe Robinson

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a…

— Dane Cook

In comedy, you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

— Michael Che

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

— Alan King

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits…

— John Cleese

Comedy is like music; it builds on itself. Once someone comes up with a theory or a different way of doing things, people start…

— Doug Stanhope

Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them.

— Cheech Marin

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off…

— Paul Feig

Comedy needs to happen naturally and be in touch with the character. When you see that guy in your office that everybody laughs at,…

— Terry Crews

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

— Zooey Deschanel