Michael Ian Black Quotes

Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do.

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!

When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.

I love comedy. Comedy is one of my favourite things to do.

Merle Haggard once said, 'I'm really mad at Glen Campbell because he's the most talented human being in the world.' That kind of summed it up. Merle didn't miss!

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed

Being a fan of comedy, it's so unique, in their own voice. I was really stoked to be able to participate. They're so great at just coming up with stuff on the fly and making stuff funny.

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

I know a lot of girls in the comedy world who are kind of like me. I don't know where the slutty girls hang out, but it's not the comedy world as far as I know.

[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

Writing about your community is difficult for any writer.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people. Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny. I'm the least funny person in a room full of funny people.

It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.