Brash Quote by Larry Wilmore

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy,…

— Sam Kinison

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor…

— Sally Field

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience,…

— Bob Saget

If you look at all the comic book films that have come since then, in terms of tone, in terms of look, even in…

— Michael Uslan

...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a…

— Anita Loos

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged…

— Alice Lowe

Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout…

— Mark Waters

As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all…

— Zach Galifianakis

There is also a kind of mean-spiritedness with LA comics.

— David Cross

Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would…

— Ice Cube

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

It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler…

— Frank Miller