Being popular Quote by Zach Galifianakis

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

— Mel Brooks

Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they…

— Colin Jost

The comedy community does not like me at all. It's ego-driven and competitive. Everyone's jealous of everybody, and I've been there.

— Matt Rife

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need…

— Mike Birbiglia

Sometimes I - with comedy, it's like someone liking you in high school. They either do, or they don't. And when they don't, they…

— John Mulaney

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in…

— Tommy Lee Jones

Comedy is not good for anything, really. Apart from being one of the only things that makes life worth living.

— Jesse Armstrong

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

— Matt Lucas

People are much more vicious about comedy than about anything else. If it's drama they go: 'Oh well, that didn't really work.' But comedy,…

— Harry Enfield

Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is…

— W. Kamau Bell

There's a lot of people out there who didn't like my style of comedy.

— Pauly Shore

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

— Hannah Gadsby