Joan Rivers Quotes

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

There's an art to comedy.

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

The thing about comedy is that you don't have to play funny.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

Comedy is second nature for me.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.