Quotes about Comedy

My dear Hiram, cried Mrs. Otis, what can we do with a woman who faints? Charge it to her like breakages, answered the Minister; she won't faint after that;

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce. They are charmingly artificial, but they have no sense of art.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.

I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.

My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine, stool, and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.