Top 1200 Best Comedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I think because of the Internet I was able to study comedy from quite a young age and watch a lot of comedy.

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

As far as how I approach the humor, I think the best comedy is going to happen when I'm myself and act organically to a news item or situation.

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.

That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.

When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.

On a practical level, I'm uncomfortable at comedy clubs because there are so many shitty dude comics who have made my life miserable. If I go to a comedy club and I look around, I don't know which of the dudes lining the wall told me that I was too fat to get raped. It makes me nauseous. But that was a couple years ago, and meanwhile, comedy has changed a lot.

I always wrote risque comedy and crude comedy.

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

It's best, I think, to treat stand-up comedy on the telly like tapas: small tasters of something you'd love a proper plate of.

I like the idea of building the suspense and taking it all the way up to the very last second with the suspense, and right when you think you can't take it anymore, then you come in with the joke and kind of break the tension. To me, that's the best kind of film. I like thrillers, so thrillers with comedy, to me, is always the best.

In comedy you have to be prepared and be specific and have a vision so your comedy feels organic and relatable and it's a lot of work to get to that point.

Every teacher that I've ever had, that I still remember their name, made me laugh. I feel like comedy is the best instrument to teach.

Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.

It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.

The best comedy not only makes you laugh, but on the moment of the laugh, you learned.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.

From 1987 to 1992, I was on the road for 40 weeks a year playing comedy clubs, and that was during the 'comedy boom.'

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

I think I learned everything about comedy and timing and drama from watching 'The Muppet Show,' which was one of the best shows ever produced.

'Silicon Valley' is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won't pawn it.

The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.

I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.

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

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

I was taught by a lot of great comedy writers to go for the reality in a role, and the comedy will come through.

I mostly, for someone who makes a lot of their living in comedy - and even for someone who doesn't make their living in comedy - I don't watch a lot of comedy.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.

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

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.

I never approach comedy thinking 'I know it all.' Comedy is tough. To make people laugh is not easy.

When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy.

I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.

Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.

I love comedy. I don't think there's enough comedy on stage.

I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.