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.
It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.
I've a belt that I have worn for every single stand-up comedy session since I was 19. I fear if I ever lose it, my career would crumble. That's my one OCD.
Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.
In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.
Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change.
In general, even when I'm not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say the most offensive things.
I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art.
There’s a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn’t fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and...
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.
My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.
