1,680 Quotes About Comedy

I'm gaining weight in the role I was not even casted or stole! I put weight for the castaway I didn't even choose to play!

Outgroups mocking the ingroup is a weapon of the weak, lessening the sting of subordination. But when an ingroup mocks an outgroup, it solidifies negative stereotypes and reifies the hierarchy.

I will never tire of touring. Television feels like throwing shit at a wall and hoping some of it will stick. But working live, even at this late stage in my career, I feel like you are making new fans one by one in the most unlikely places and sometimes giving people new experiences they would never have imagined they would enjoy.

I think a lot of comedy comes from hypersensitivity, from being too vulnerable to deal with life and needing to preemptively protect yourself.

When someone genuinely laughs with you, it’s proof that you share a certain internal space. And that’s not so lonely after all.

Here I come, you grizzly old grunion! You rotten old turnip! You filthy old frumpet!

Some so-called comedians are, not funny, but a joke.

Comedy is the art of telling the truth about what it's like to be human.

Comedy sees all our flaws, and foibles, and failings, and still doesn't hate us for them.