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If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go. ”
Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, or Joan Rivers. There are a lot of good comics out there, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics. ”
Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy. ”
Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men. ”
Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself. ”
Hollywood's just not funny. ”
It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look. ”
In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.' ”
I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape. ”
Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec,' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny,' if he wasn't. ”