Character Quote by Chris Rock

The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.

— Julian Barratt

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

— Harold Ramis

I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that…

— Will Ferrell

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

— Steve Guttenberg

Comedy is such a frivolous world that it can make you addicted to the frivolity, and then a lot of people don't settle down…

— Ivo Graham

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

Working in comedy can be grind; there are so many guys and it's kind of a boyish lifestyle.

— Esther Povitsky

I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers that I'm…

— Tim Heidecker

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

— Jonah Hill

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

You saw a lot of guys, especially in the early '90s, whose acts were a pitch for a sitcom. A lot of them were…

— Patton Oswalt

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

— Zooey Deschanel