I just wanted to be in show business. I didn’t care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy. – Steve Martin
It’s so rewarding being on radio, especially because it’s not about what you look like at all. And I love comedy, so it’s very exciting. – Sophie Monk
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process. – Steve Carell
I don’t like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there’s no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that’s got an underlying point of view. – Steve Coogan
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. – Tom Stoppard
It used to be that in comedy you had to play the clubs and work your way up, but now, before you do the clubs, you can put something up on the Internet. It’s public access times a million. – Trevor Moore
I’ve known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we’re about as close as you can get to being a comedy team. – Tim Conway
I’ll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I’m just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do. – Steve Carell
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy. – Steve Martin
Unless you’re Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama. – Steve Guttenberg
No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets. – Tracy Morgan
If I’m doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don’t use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character. – Zach Woods
In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly. – Tom Shales
One of the attractions of translating ‘Heroes’ is that it’s not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn’t have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It’s much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit. – Tom Stoppard
I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I’ll always pick a comedy over a drama. – Sigourney Weaver
You know what I would really like to do? I’d like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it. – Sharon Gless
I have a rule – ‘funny is funny!’ When I write comedy, it’s not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows. – Vir Das
The one that was most fun was That’s My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have. – Timothy Bottoms
