Comedy Source Quotes

Vampires, they're like the gift that won't stop giving. It's a good fruitful place to find comedy because they take themselves so seriously.

The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that.

Every joke has its origin - the punching people in the face joke. It hurts like hell to get punched in the face.

Believe it or not, I make myself laugh. Sometimes when I have thoughts or say some things that are funny, it just makes me laugh, and I don't mind laughing at it before you guys do.

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.

I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it.

All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the best comedy comes from, from stereotypes.

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

The two things that I thought were really interesting about this character [Bow] for me were that she actually loved her husband, and he loved her. The comedy was not coming from the fact that they hated each other. Which is what television couples are usually based on.

Let's face it: families behind closed doors are the funniest thing ever - the way people talk to each other, the way you fight for 30 seconds, and then all of a sudden you're crying. Families are just ripe for comedy.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

The charming sitcom is all very well, but good comedy is based on pain and danger and fear.

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.

In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.