Quotes about Comedy

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There's a lot of supposed tween comedy on TV that isn't particularly funny, but it's got a lot of laugh track. And I go, 'Please don't watch that. Please just watch something that's actually funny.'

Nowadays if you talk of comedy as a film genre, you cannot create a simple comedy film, because there are so many other platforms where you can watch comedy free of cost.

I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.

A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.