Quotes of: Standup-comedy Keyword

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

Chris Hardwick

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

Colin Mochrie

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

Charles Platt

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

Chris Rock

Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.

Isaiah Mustafa

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

David Steinberg

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

David Walton

You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.

Brendan Gleeson

People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.

Bob Newhart

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

Bruce Nash

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

Gene Hackman

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

Graham Norton

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

Jason Reitman

I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.

Jim Rash

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

David Alan Basche

I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'

Devon Bostick

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

Dick Cavett

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.

John DiMaggio