Comedy Quote by Larry David

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a…

— Gore Verbinski

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a…

— Dan Trachtenberg

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny…

— Todd Phillips

I haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again,…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

— Jim Gaffigan

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

— Roseanne Barr

I started in this industry [television] as a kid doing commercials. Ever since I was introduced to it, I loved it.

— Kofi Siriboe

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

— Stanley Donwood

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

— Wanda Sykes

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

— Lloyd Kaufman

I had started in the comedy world in a more traditional way. I was auditioning for TV, film, and commercials while I was making…

— Grace Helbig

In terms of comedy, there was a Seinfeldian era of comedy that I love but got played out. Seinfeld was great, but then after…

— Mike Birbiglia