Comedy Quote by James Bobin

Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it's lovely playing a man who, in his heart and soul, is…

— James Purefoy

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

— Dick Cavett

I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.

— Kenya Barris

Growing up, I was certainly drawn to comedy, but my goal was just to be as well-rounded an actor as possible. I really liked…

— Paul Rudd

Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

— Hal Roach

I've always been leery of comical artists because I think oftentimes they're hiding the fact that they're not that talented. For example, with Martin…

— Diego Cortez

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today…

— Leonard Maltin

Richard Pryor - he had stories, he had characters, he had short jokes, and he had bits. He had all those things. Eddie Murphy…

— Charlie Murphy

Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You…

— Will Ferrell

It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln.…

— Louis C. K

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really…

— Demetri Martin

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

— William Collins