Comedy Quotes

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A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that… — Johnny Knoxville
Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else. — Lloyd Kaufman
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances. — Takeshi Kitano
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not… — Takeshi Kitano
I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000. — Justin Zackham
Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision.… — Owen Gleiberman
I watched a lot of comedy growing up. — Wanda Sykes
It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians. — Wanda Sykes
I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg. — Dick Cavett
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama,… — Dick Cavett
The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny. — Matt Groening
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to… — Arthur Schopenhauer
All comedy comes from a dark place. — Katt Williams
All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan.… — Ricky Van Veen
I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some… — Billy Eichner
It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out. — Dana Fox
You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it. — Keegan-Michael Key
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can… — Keegan-Michael Key
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then… — Keegan-Michael Key
It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life. — Jordan Peele
Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing. — Jordan Peele
I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious. — Faith Prince
I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me. — Paul Putner
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy,… — Chris Hardwick
The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto. — Chris Hardwick

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