1,680 Quotes About Comedy

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.

It is what it is. He's trying to make a big family comedy. The characters, even if they're big and broad, don't know they're big and broad.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

I flunked out of five colleges, and I did not know what I was going to do. And when I was sitting in the back of a comedy club, and I saw a guy who I thought sucked, I said to myself 'I can do this.' And I talked to the owner of the comedy club, and I found out you get a few free drinks.

Tim and I have known each other for 15 years, so when we go back to doing a film every few years, it's like going home again. He walks this fine line between darkness and comedy like nobody else.