Quotes of: Standup-comedy Keyword

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

William Collins

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

Mike Myers

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

Aries Spears

Bouncing ideas off people when you're thinking up comedy is great.

Casey Nicholaw

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

Paul Scheer

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

Adam McKay

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

Bryan Cranston

Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director.

Kevin McDonald

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Peter Billingsley

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Roger Ebert

With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.

Robert Knepper

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Steve Guttenberg

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

Paul Merton

I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.

Ashton Kutcher

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Bobby Farrelly

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

Casey Wilson

The number one rule of comedy acting is 'don't try to be funny.' Act as seriously as possible.

Daniel J. Goor

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

Gilbert Gottfried

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

Jennifer Aniston

That's the easiest job you can have in TV comedy, being the guy who just delivers the funny.

Josh McDermitt

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

Lloyd Kaufman