Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Levy

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

Judd Apatow

I often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it.

Paul Reiser

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

Paul Giamatti

The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

Natasha Leggero

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

Kristen Wiig

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

Margaret Cho

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

Margaret Cho

Comedy was all I ever wanted.

Margaret Cho

I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.

Paul Merton

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

Michael Dorn

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

Michael Dorn

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.

Martin Freeman

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

P. G. Wodehouse

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

Paul Feig

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

Michaela Watkins

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

Chris Rock

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

Chris Rock

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

Natasha Richardson

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

Morgan Freeman

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

Kelli Berglund

I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.

Jo Brand

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

Eric Andre

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

Matt LeBlanc

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.

William Shakespeare

And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.

Elayne Boosler

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

Norman Lear

Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'

Norman Lear

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

Michael Caine

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

Mason Cooley

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

Michael Moore

How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?

James L. Brooks

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Joe Rogan

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.