“Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.” PeopleSeemsGuyTalkingForeverComedyRight NowBoredFunny Guy Author:Bob Saget
“There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.” MovingComedyOne ThingRight NowDramaticJust OneMixingVery MovingGreat Comedy Author:Sarah Silverman
“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.” FirstsTwoSchoolGuyActorsBlackActingTalkingComedyRight NowMurphyBrandoBlack Guys Author:Scott Raab
“The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.” IfsBigsTodayComedyAliveRight NowDebateFuneralSaddamConfusing Author:David Letterman
“America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word 'f__k'. And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say 'f__k'? It's like when they bleeped 'molly' at the VMAs. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out 'molly'?” ThinkingLooksShowsWisdomBodyRealityAmericaGuyPoliticsCommunityLeadershipJusticeDemocracyComedyGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyRight NowEthicsCookingStrategyHuman RightsIndividualitySocial MediaIdeologyCooksFree SpeechCivilityAcidPartisanship Author:Miley Cyrus
“It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of [Kupperman's] underground comics my shirt is literally soaking wet. This guy may have one of the best comedy brains on the planet right now.” MayDoneGuyReadingBrainComedyPlanetsRight NowShirtsLaughedWetCriedThis GuySoakingBest Comedy Author:Conan O'Brien
“Once you capitulate to one dictator, does that mean that the next dictator or the next terrorist that says you're not going to make a comedy about - or a film at all about ISIS. All of us in public life have a responsibility right now to speak out and to say, 'No, Sony, you did the wrong thing' and to say to Hollywood, come behind - the other studios should come behind Sony and offer their support.” LifeShouldMeanDoeFilmNextSpeakBehindsResponsibilitySupportComedyRight NowOffersHollywoodStudiosTerroristDictatorIsisWrong ThingsPublic LifeSpeaks OutSony Author:Ed Royce
“Right now I'm sick of acting, so it's like, Maybe I'll do writing for a bit. Then, when I'm tired of writing, I'll go work on my music. When I'm sick of music, I'll be like, I'm going to start performing comedy now. So it's good. It's not like I want to be famous or anything.” WantWritingBitsActingComedyRight NowSickTiredPerformingI'm Tired Author:Charlyne Yi
“If I found myself alone on planet Earth, no other humans, I would have sex with a monkey in like two minutes. Two minutes. That's really not long enough to be sure you're alone on the Earth, even. That's like... I walk outside, it's- there's not much traffic. "Oh, my God, it's just me! I'm gonna have sex with a monkey right now. Oh, no-there's a person."” IfsHumansPersonsLongTwoEnoughEarthFunnyFoundSexWalksComedyMinutesPlanetsRight NowTrafficMonkeysPlanet Earth Author:Louis C. K.
“I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn't that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I'm from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group.” KidsUsedBitsClassStudyComedyGroupsFeetNew YorkMonthsCoupleRight NowDancingJazzMusicalUsed To BeBalletSaturdayBrushesJerseyFunny ThingsSelectedNew JerseyHappy Feet Author:Brittany Murphy
“There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHumansStillsMatterStoriesFilmBlackVoiceHuman BeingsTechnologyIssuesComedyColorTypeRight NowCrisisAddressesBlack Lives MatterEnablingBlack Lives Author:Charles Burnett
“I think comedy is on an organic upsurge right now because when I started, it was 1978 at The Comedy Store and Letterman had just stopped emceeing his morning show.” ThinkingShowsMorningComedyRight NowStoresLetterman Author:Bob Saget
“If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.” IfsWantMindLastsAsksWalksRolesComedyRight NowTricksAsk MeDramaticPoniesComedy Movie Author:Carlos Mencia
“Rory is very established in England, which you are seeing right now with Bond. But his father Roy Kinnear was a very, very beloved comedy actor here in the UK. And Rory actually even looks a bit like his dad. And so it makes a lot of sense to me that Rory has such good comic chops because it's in his blood. He's very, very funny as Sean.” LooksActorsFatherBitsComedySeeingBloodDadRight NowEnglandComicBelovedSean Author:Simon Pegg
“What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote that I knew I could get financing, you know? I believe my other films could be better, but right now they're not being made. But they will eventually.” KnowsBelieveMadeFilmI BelieveComedyRight NowDon't BelieveScreenplaysFinancing Author:Julie Delpy
“When you talk about modern comedy I think there's a big three right now, and that's Louis C.K., Bill Burr, and Jim Jefferies. I don't think anyone's doing it better than those three guys.” ThinkingBigsGuyThreeComedyModernRight NowBillsBurrs Author:Brad Williams
“Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.” LittlesFantasyComedyAdventureRight NowPercentPencilsNinetySkirtsSubwayHurryingNew AdventureHankering Author:Mindy Kaling
“I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.” WaySometimesHumorFunnyWishComedyStupidRight NowExcuseStupidityRehabGetting HighMessed UpSillinessMessing Up Author:Chris Rock
“Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.” LooksHumorFunnyJobsGuyFallWhiteComedyRight NowWhite GuysAmbulanceChasers Author:Chris Rock
“For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.” HumansComedyMinutesConditionsRight NowHappeningsNewspapersReportsHuman ConditionDay To Day Author:Elayne Boosler