Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

For other comics, it's about full-spectrum dominance, being on panel shows and having one-liners and being a good chat show guest and having a good seven minutes you can do on 'Live At The Apollo.' But I really think about these subsequent finished pieces, you know? And they don't always chop up well into one-liners and routines.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.

I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

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

George Lopez does so much mugging, I'm surprised he's not up on charges.

I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.

You know, I'm a big comedy fan.

I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations." And then I started to realize that I wanted to mix it up a bit, so I started to doing songs, and I had a little keyboard onstage and would bring in little props. Then I thought about the idea of talking about a character and becoming the character onstage. So, it sort of morphed into being stand-up that was more character based, and I found that's the stuff I got the better reaction from and was more exciting for me.

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

I feel like comedy is doing well right now because there's so many avenues to be seen. Whether it's through the Internet with social media or web videos and now there's so many networks and TV shows.

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.

My comedy is romanticized laziness.

Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.