Comedy Quotes
On laughter, dark times, and comedy as survival.
This collection treats comedy as something closer to coping than entertainment, with one entry stating plainly that its real purpose is to hide pain. See Comedian quotes for related themes.
These guys Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac claim they're the Kings of Comedy. They may be funny, but they ain't no kings. That title is reserved for Rudy Ray Moore and Redd Foxx.
I'd love to try comedy, which I've never actually done. I could fail miserably at it, but I'd have fun working it out.
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I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.
When you do comedy shows, you usually don't finish until about 11 P.M. Then you have this adrenaline dump, and you get hungry.
Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.
There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.
I came to Vegas because I wanted to, not because I thought it could help my career. I didn't even know they had comedy clubs here.
I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.
Denver has smart and energetic crowds that appreciate good comedy and don't take themselves too seriously.
My comedy is kind of a counteraction to some of the comedy I don't like. Or things I don't like.
When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy.
I was a teacher before comedy, but it was good because no two days were the same, which this job is too.
I think what's very French is the mixture of comedy with intimacy and a kind of reflectiveness. For U.S. audiences, the nearest thing is Woody Allen.
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.
