Quotes about Comedy

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

Everyone in my family is very supportive, and any mention of family in my show is just, in my idea, the funniest version of the family of the guy of who's performing.

When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.

Oh, Amy Poehler. I just love her. I think she's like a dream woman.

I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.

Fukrey' was my first attempt at comedy.

I am absolutely at ease working in a comedy.

Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.

Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.

So progressives have been working hard to come up with lies that can be passed off as facts. Progressives have a whole cultural contingent—Hollywood, the mainline media, the elite universities, even professional comedians—to peddle their propaganda. From the television show Madame Secretary to the front page of the New York Times to nightly quips by Stephen Colbert, the progressive bilge comes at us continually and relentlessly.

If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.