Quotes about Comedy

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

Laughter is no enemy to learning.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

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

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

Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant.

It's a lovely moment when everyone's part of something greater than the sum of its parts. That encapsulates what a comedy gig should be, with the comic as the lightning rod, the Norse mischief god, getting the audience to do something they wouldn't necessarily do.

We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn't let us watch 'The Flintstones' if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of 'The Honeymooners'. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old 'Honeymooners'.

A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.