Comedy Shows Quotes - Page 2

• We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a knock on Mr. Show at all, because it's my favorite comedy show of all time. Even before I worked on it. It's just really refreshing to write something so stupid and say, "We gotta do that."

  B. J. Porter

  Stupid, Writing, Stuff

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• One of the coolest things was that, in 2007, I got to go to Iraq with Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, and Horatio Sanz. We went over there to do some comedy shows with the U.S.O.

  Rob Huebel

  Iraq, Comedy, Horatio

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exist". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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• Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].

  Fred Armisen

  Divorce, Two, Lucky

  "Fred Armisen: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2011.

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• People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

  Tracy Morgan

  Phones, People, Clubs

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• You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

  Joe Klein

  News, Comedy, Shows

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• I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

  Casey Kasem

  Team, Opportunity, Korea

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• More people are going out to comedy shows than they were before.

  Jimmy Carr

  People, Going Out, Comedy

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• The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They’re superficial and I like articulate comedy.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Attention, Littles, Comedy

  "Remembering Mary Tyler Moore". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 26, 2017.

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• I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.

  Dylan Moran

  Night, Rocks, Feelings

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• I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Aggravation, Musician, Doe

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• What is there to say about ChUC other than it's a comedy show done the right way in the right space. Fantastic comics, welcoming audience. Always great.

  Kyle Kinane

  Space, Done, Way

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• I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

  Nadia Giosia

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Rocks

  "Nadia G. Dishes On Her Hunger for Life". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2012.

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• There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.

  Jenny Slate

  Tv Shows, Next Day, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  New York, Piano, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy. I don't know how to do the other, so I won't consider television until the audience's taste changes.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Littles, Taste, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You do what you're supposed to do, but you have to be honest about what they're doing. When you do a comedy show on a network the problem is there are going to be a bunch of people who aren't comedians that are going to tell you what's funny.

  Joe Rogan

  People, Comedian, Comedy

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Jason [Nash] is just someone that I've known socially and through his stand-up, seeing him do different comedy shows, and I just really like him. I think he's a funny guy and he has a unique perspective on being a dad and a husband.

  Busy Philipps

  Husband, Dad, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fearless, Bugs, Stories

  "JB Smoove shares great Larry David stories, picks Super Bowl winner". FOX Interview, www.foxsports.com. January 30, 2014.

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• My show is an adult comedy show, but it isn't offensive. Your kids could listen to it, even though I hope they wouldn't 'get' most of it. But I get a lot of fan mail from soccer moms saying 'I love having your CD because I can listen to it with my kids in the car.'

  Henry Cho

  Soccer, Mom, Kids

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• I'm really happy that I've been able to make people laugh and distract them from their day to day bullshit at a comedy show or because they enjoyed one of my CDs or TV specials, but I don't know how many people have actually had life changing thoughts because of it.

  Joe Rogan

  Life Changing, Cds, Laughing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I'm very interested in trying to make comedy shows that are a bit bigger, more theatrical, more of a "show." Some people might say I'm trying too hard, but that's a compliment to me. I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

  Bo Burnham

  People, Trying, Littles

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to do a whole comedy show about swimming in the loathsomely cold waters of Maine.

  John Hodgman

  Children, Swimming, Water

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• MY ACT IS 'NOTHING BUT COMEDY. I TALK SOUTHERN BECAUSE I PICKED IT UP WHEN I MOVED TO THE SOUTH. IM NOT TRYING TO MAKE ANY SOCIAL POLITICAL POINT, NOR AM I TRYING TO MAKE FUN OF REDNECKS. I GREW UP A COUNTRY KID AND WILL ALWAYS BE ONE. I GREW UP WITH PEOPLE THAT SAID CERTAIN THINGS FUNNY AND I PREFORM USING THE SAME LANGUAGE BECAUSE I FIND IT HYSTERICLE. THATS IT. ITS A COMEDY SHOW THAT IS FUNNY AND THATS IT.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Country, Fun, Kids

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

  Aziz Ansari

  Dad, Son, America

  "‘Master of None’ Creators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang on Turning Dinner Conversation into Michelin Star TV". Interview with Ben Travers, www.indiewire.com. November 6, 2015.

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• I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.

  Cher

  Mother, Strong, Jobs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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