Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.
I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage
People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.
I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.
This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
There's always been physical suffering in comedy.
Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.
If I were to die of anything vaguely sex-related or had taken Viagra, you just know there'd be headlines of 'Russell How-hard' in the newspapers.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol
My girlfriend said she wanted me to tease her, so I said "Alright, fatty."
You can figure out how bad a person you are by how soon after September 11th you masturbated, like how long you waited... and for me it was between the two buildings going down... I had to do it, otherwise they'd win.
Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.
A big girl once came up to me after a show and said "I think you're fatist." I said "No, no. I think you're fattest."
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