Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Martin exploded through 'Saturday Night Live,' ... What you have now is Comedy Central, a ready vehicle that's helping the country-hick humor on one hand and giving a guy like Dane Cook a platform on the other.

Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good space to work those things out and educate everyone about the different experiences and different race groups in South Africa.

Jeff Foxworthy

Jeff puts his relationship first and foremost and realizes I do the same, so he really watches out for me and makes sure I don't have to do anything on the show that would upset David. I was warned when I started a sketch comedy show that they could be cutthroat, but it's been like a family.

That's a wonderful film a lot of people love for the comedy and drama of it.

David Walliams

I was probably about 12 and The Young Ones wasn't meant for 12-year-olds, but there's always that element in kids where they want to watch the naughty comedy that's not for them.

Amity Gaige

It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.

Patricia Heaton

It had a 'Moonstruck' quality to the comedy - very romantic, huge emotions. I like to think of it as a comic opera, ... It just posed this question, what is true love? Is it that sort of ecstatic, over-the-top feeling you get on meeting someone? Or is it about years of commitment and history together? Or is it both? How do you find it, and how do you know? It's a very complicated topic.

It isn't easy to create a drama infused with comedy, and Psych just knocks it out of the park.

It isn't easy to create a drama infused with comedy, and 'Psych' just knocks it out of the park.

Judah Friedlander

I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.

Bea Arthur

I watch a lot of news shows and I love Nick at Night, and the Comedy Channel.

Eric Idle

I think he's the most intelligent man I've ever met. Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy.

Joan Severance

I don't know why they wanted me-no one had ever seen me do any sort of comedy one way or another, so it couldn't have been that!

Cyndi Lauper

I am also an Emmy winning actress. Except that I gotta tell ya, it was for comedy and I've been practicing for most of my life because every job I've ever had they'd always say the same thing, 'Hey Lauper, what are ya, some kind of comedienne?' and who knew?

Ken Dodd

I feel people desperately want a laugh and what I offer them is optimistic comedy. Unlike some comics, I don't tell them what a rotten world it is. I say life is fabulous and wonderful and we should enjoy it while we can.

Diane Cilento

I did comedy Francaise acting. When I was in a play with Michael Redgrave, I learnt to take the stage and have control of what I was doing.

Daniel Handler

I was interested in finding ways to do dark comedy that were actually dark and comic.

Cameron Boyce

Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.

Stephen Colbert

Jon's his own guy, but it's a gig that says a lot about who you are in the comedy community.

It is a bittersweet moment for all of us at NBC to confirm that this will be the final season of the comedy Will & Grace .

Bea Arthur

I think the mother-daughter between Estelle and me was one made in comedy heaven.

George Carlin

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy you can usually find me next door playing pinball

I enjoy having fun with our history. You've got to have comedy, you've got to have drama and it all has to take place in a two and one-half hour period, with an intermission,

Kimberley Nixon

'Fresh Meat' is the first comedy thing I've ever done.

He was one of the few in television who could always be counted on to deliver comedy that was smart and funny.

Eddie Izzard

He was a genius. To think all these years on his comedy is still making us laugh

Devon Bostick

I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'

Dwayne Hickman

He had a wonderful sense of comedy, great timing, and he had sweet personality on the screen. I loved working with him. I was proud to be his straight man.

Bill Hader

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Tom Stoppard

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

Aziz Ansari

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.

Aziz Ansari

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

Ben Elton

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.