Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people. ”

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy. ”

One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy. ”

I think comedy is incredibly discriminated against. It is one of the most enjoyed yet most condescended art forms in the world. It's the same thing with hip-hop. ”

Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has to come from the character. ”

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with. ”

I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny. ”

Gilbert Gottfried, I think, is just the most underappreciated comedian in the world. I think that he doesn't get enough credit for how funny he is. ”

I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. ”

I have Janicza solely to thank for my growth as an actor because she saw in me something that other people just weren't seeing, and she knew that I could go beyond the normal, funny 'make-em-ups' that I was doing on an improv stage. ”