Comedy Shows Quotes:

I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.

- David Rees

topic: Comedian, Hobbies, Littles, Comedy Shows

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

- Drew Carey

topic: People, Speech, Littles, Comedy Shows

If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

- Keegan-Michael Key

topic: Successful, Player, Looks, Format, Skit

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

- Steve Burton

topic: Fun, Firsts, Comedy, Comedy Shows

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

- Jasper Fforde

topic: Interesting, Mixtures, Comedy, Lowbrow, Comedy Shows

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

- Kel Mitchell

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Faces, Comedy, Shows, Comedy Shows, Sketch Comedy

It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.

- Robert Orben

source: "Scandal feeds maelstrom of Clinton jokes - 'Monicagate' a windfall for TV wits" by Lauren Keeport, The Washington Times, p. A2, February 3, 1998.

topic: Writing, Scratches, Plot, Comedy Shows

Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It's not the way it's supposed to be.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Thinking, Paris, People, Think Twice, Comedy Shows

I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy.

- Anthony Jeselnik

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Comedy, Drive Me Crazy, Comedy Shows

What's important on a comedy show, or any show, is that some stories have to go somewhere. There have to be ends to the beginnings and middles you create. But sometimes it's like a way station on the highway, then the actual thing doesn't have to be this giant, climactic, life-changing, game-changing thing.

- Michael Schur

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Life Changing, Games, Important, Comedy Shows

I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."

- Shelley Long

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Cheer, Writing, Years, Springboards, Comedy Shows

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.

- Aaron Belz

source: "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

topic: Comedy, Bizarre, Shows, Comedy Shows

I enjoy doing these silly little videos, and a lot of stuff online is stuff I actually created for my live comedy shows.

- Tom Lenk

topic: Silly, Littles, Stuff, Comedy Shows, Silly Little

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

- Ricky Gervais

topic: Odd Things, Done, Television, Comedy Shows

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

- Michael Schur

source: Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.

topic: Comedy Shows

I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.

- Debbie Reynolds

source: Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

topic: Song, Years, Musical, Comedy Shows, Show Tunes

They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.

- Dawn Ostroff

topic: Couple, Reality, Two, Modern Day, Odd Couple

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

- Clive Anderson

topic: Comedy, Week, Shows, Comedy Shows

One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there - Lee Camp.

- Matt Labash

topic: Night, Laughing, Comedian, Comedy Shows, Funny Comedian

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

- Michael Mandelbaum

topic: Book, Hearing, Serious, Comedy Shows

I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go

- Dan Dierdorf

topic: Football, Thinking, Hbo, Comedy Shows

It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Jealous, Watches, Comedy, Comedy Shows

I see people's need to dream, people's need to escape - you see it! That's why people come to comedy shows, that's why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while.

- David Copperfield

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Dream, Medicine, People, Comedy Shows

I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end.

- Scott Aukerman

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Thinking, Stories, Narrative, Comedy Shows

It's just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is hilarious, so no. You know what it is? People are adults and they know they're at a comedy show but every once in a while somebody isn't an adult and then for some reason, you know, it's lazy reporting. They're trying to create this thing that isn't happening. It's not like people go in there and are just sitting with laptops open getting ready to blog about every stupid joke.

- Bill Burr

source: Source: www.smudailycampus.com

topic: Stupid, Talking, People, Very Stupid, Stupid Jokes

We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a knock on Mr. Show at all, because it's my favorite comedy show of all time. Even before I worked on it. It's just really refreshing to write something so stupid and say, "We gotta do that."

- B. J. Porter

source: Source: www.dead-frog.com

topic: Stupid, Writing, Stuff, Mr Show, Comedy Shows

One of the coolest things was that, in 2007, I got to go to Iraq with Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, and Horatio Sanz. We went over there to do some comedy shows with the U.S.O.

- Rob Huebel

topic: Iraq, Comedy, Horatio, Comedy Shows

Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].

- Fred Armisen

source: "Fred Armisen: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2011.

topic: Divorce, Two, Lucky, Comedy Shows

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

- Tracy Morgan

topic: Phones, People, Clubs, Comedy Shows

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

- Joe Klein

topic: News, Comedy, Shows, Comedy Shows

I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

- Casey Kasem

topic: Team, Opportunity, Korea, Discs, Comedy Shows

More people are going out to comedy shows than they were before.

- Jimmy Carr

topic: People, Going Out, Comedy, Comedy Shows

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

- Mary Tyler Moore

topic: Attention, Littles, Comedy, Comedy Shows

I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.

- Dylan Moran

topic: Night, Rocks, Feelings, Best Comedy, Comedy Shows

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

- Kevin Eubanks

topic: Aggravation, Musician, Doe, Comedy Shows

What is there to say about ChUC other than it's a comedy show done the right way in the right space. Fantastic comics, welcoming audience. Always great.

- Kyle Kinane

topic: Space, Done, Way, Comedy Shows

I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

- Nadia Giosia

source: "Nadia G. Dishes On Her Hunger for Life". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2012.

topic: Beautiful, Hard Work, Rocks, Shiny Things, Clothes And Shoes

There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.

- Jenny Slate

topic: Tv Shows, Important, Different, Comedy Shows

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

- Roselyn Sanchez

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: New York, Piano, Numbers, Puerto Rico, Comedy Shows

You do what you're supposed to do, but you have to be honest about what they're doing. When you do a comedy show on a network the problem is there are going to be a bunch of people who aren't comedians that are going to tell you what's funny.

- Joe Rogan

source: Source: brightestyoungthings.com

topic: People, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Shows

Jason [Nash] is just someone that I've known socially and through his stand-up, seeing him do different comedy shows, and I just really like him. I think he's a funny guy and he has a unique perspective on being a dad and a husband.

- Busy Philipps

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Husband, Dad, Thinking, Funny Guy, Comedy Shows

I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.

- J. B. Smoove

source: "JB Smoove shares great Larry David stories, picks Super Bowl winner". FOX Interview, www.foxsports.com. January 30, 2014.

topic: Fearless, Bugs, Stories, Comedy Shows

My show is an adult comedy show, but it isn't offensive. Your kids could listen to it, even though I hope they wouldn't 'get' most of it. But I get a lot of fan mail from soccer moms saying 'I love having your CD because I can listen to it with my kids in the car.'

- Henry Cho

topic: Soccer, Mom, Kids, Comedy Shows, Fan Mail

I'm really happy that I've been able to make people laugh and distract them from their day to day bullshit at a comedy show or because they enjoyed one of my CDs or TV specials, but I don't know how many people have actually had life changing thoughts because of it.

- Joe Rogan

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

topic: Life Changing, Cds, Laughing, Comedy Shows

I'm very interested in trying to make comedy shows that are a bit bigger, more theatrical, more of a "show." Some people might say I'm trying too hard, but that's a compliment to me. I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

- Bo Burnham

source: Source: www.popmatters.com

topic: People, Trying, Littles, Trying Too Hard, Flair

I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to do a whole comedy show about swimming in the loathsomely cold waters of Maine.

- John Hodgman

source: "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

topic: Children, Swimming, Water, Cold Water, Comedy Shows

MY ACT IS 'NOTHING BUT COMEDY. I TALK SOUTHERN BECAUSE I PICKED IT UP WHEN I MOVED TO THE SOUTH. IM NOT TRYING TO MAKE ANY SOCIAL POLITICAL POINT, NOR AM I TRYING TO MAKE FUN OF REDNECKS. I GREW UP A COUNTRY KID AND WILL ALWAYS BE ONE. I GREW UP WITH PEOPLE THAT SAID CERTAIN THINGS FUNNY AND I PREFORM USING THE SAME LANGUAGE BECAUSE I FIND IT HYSTERICLE. THATS IT. ITS A COMEDY SHOW THAT IS FUNNY AND THATS IT.

- Larry the Cable Guy

source: Source: www.dead-frog.com

topic: Country, Fun, Kids, Comedy Shows

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

- Aziz Ansari

source: "‘Master of None’ Creators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang on Turning Dinner Conversation into Michelin Star TV". Interview with Ben Travers, www.indiewire.com. November 6, 2015.

topic: Dad, Son, America, Huts, Comedy Shows

I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.

- Cher

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Strong, Jobs, Infomercials, Comedy Shows