The four levels of comedy: make your friends laugh, make strangers laugh, get paid to make strangers laugh, and make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
A good comedy idea is like a good painting idea. You have a sense of how it should look, and you keep adjusting and readjusting.
I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success.
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
Doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy.
I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
