Comedy Form Quotes

Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.

I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.

My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.

Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.

As a man who tried to explain in his own way that people have to learn to get along with each other. I did it with comedy because that's what I'm familiar with, and I think it's more acceptable to tell it in comedy form. But that's how I'd like to be remembered.

Doing a format parody is one of my favorite things to do in comedy.

People always talk about the content, in terms of the politics of it or whatever social issues are in it, and it's like, "Yeah, but I'm also a good comic." You could at least talk about the form of it, and I feel like that's always the thing that's missed.

To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.

The idea that standup is a thing with defined boundaries is kind of ludicrous.