In comedy, if you don’t have the right tuning with your co-actor, the humour can fall flat. – Jacqueline Fernandez
I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her. – Joan Rivers
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second. – Jack Dee
Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with ‘Hardly Working’ and ‘Cracking Up.’ – James Wolcott
I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He’s very good in ‘East Enders’ because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself – that’s about all I can do. – Jo Brand
If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that’s what we were trying to do with ‘Gigi.’ – Josh Gad
Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it. – Jeff Dunham
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there’s just no shortcut – you just have to do it. – John Oliver
I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull. My career blossomed from there, and I became a big draw on the folk-club circuit. – Jasper Carrott
I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins. – Jack Whitehall
Up until ‘Bridesmaids’, the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer. – Judd Apatow
This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them. – John Darnielle
It takes a while to realize that just because you’re a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you’re not going to be good at all comedy. – Jenny Slate
It feels bad to play a bad guy. I did George W. Bush for years, and I hated him. But you have to give full voice to the villains. You have to have really convincing villains, or it’s not worth anything as drama or comedy. – James Adomian
The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both. – Joe Rogan
Listen, I’m a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC. – Isaiah Mustafa
It’s the contemporary woman that movies don’t know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners. – James Wolcott
Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species. – Jo Brand
I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, ‘Maybe I’ll find some more drama later on in my career.’ – Jason Bateman
Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky. – Jerry Seinfeld
