Quotes about Comedy

I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to do the best I can.

I used to watch 'Private Resort' and laugh all the time.

I'd love to write more observational comedy but the stuff people seem to respond to is the most personal so it's snowballed from there.

I have shot for a political satire by Anubhav Sinha called 'Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai.'

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.

Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.

I just like to write and then perform.

For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.