Bernie Mac Quotes

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

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

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

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.

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

I'm not much of a joke writer.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre. I thoroughly enjoy comedy, especially because it is inherent to my personality.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.