I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let’s just say, a lot. – Bruce McCulloch
If you don’t like the people, you’re just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone. – Christopher Guest
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I stayed almost seven years. – Dana Carvey
Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and ‘The League’ while also getting to do other bits, that’s awesome. – Nick Kroll
I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I’d audition for comedies and think, ‘I can’t pull this off.’ – Melissa Fumero
TV is easier: it’s all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. – Drew Carey
I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl. – Dick Van Dyke
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful. – Dick Cavett
I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage. – Patton Oswalt
I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out. – Clive Anderson
The reason you do this stuff – comedy, plays, movies – is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea. – Mike Nichols
I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I’ll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it. – Dane Cook
I think I’ve definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw ‘Titanic’ in the theater, I got the bug. – Carly Craig
You try to – you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that’s where the – where the comedy is. – Denis Leary
I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now. – Emraan Hashmi
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same – dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits – the repetition through the ages is comedy. – Dawn Powell
Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen’s comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller’s comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler’s comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow’s comedy. They’re all comedy, but they’re all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way. – Eli Roth
I’m a comedian who happens to be Latino. What’s the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo. – Gabriel Iglesias
There’s a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up – or didn’t – and Jamaican stories. – Neil Gaiman
I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg. – Dick Cavett
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We’re all cruel, aren’t we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that’s what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. – Martin McDonagh
