About Quote by Joe Flaherty

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

I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people…

— Sarah Silverman

Comedians are like pop bands. When you're young, you have ruddy principles and don't do old stuff because you don't want to take away…

— Harry Enfield

I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a…

— Phil Hartman

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

In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.

— Noel Fielding

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

— Paul Merton

I've heard a lot of comedians were young when their parents divorced, or when a parent died or was killed. It forces you to…

— Fred Willard

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

— Joan Rivers

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

I think most comedians go through that (period), where you have to change or evolve. You don't want to just keep doing variations on…

— Patton Oswalt

If you don't do a lot of stupid things while you're young, you won't have funny things to talk about when you're old.

— Anonymous