What makes Broken Lizard, I think, is our timing.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

You could have a room full of the best comedians in the world and, for some reason, Chris Farley would take the cake. He was that good, just naturally. God's gift.

As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

As a comedian and satirist you have to be neutral, because everyone's fair game. Once you show bias, you lose that.

Comedy or villain, the role does not matter as long as it is challenging.

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or...

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

Cartoons are the best stuff on TV. 'Wonder Showzen,' 'Aqua Teen,' 'SpongeBob,' and, of course, 'South Park' - one of the funniest shows ever made.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of...

You know that's why mermaids swim around topless all the time, right? It's because their boobs are too big and all bras are C shells.

Mankind is immortal in the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of nature but by virtue of man's subjection to it. The "fall" in tragedy ends in death; the fall in comedy ends in bed,...

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Debbie Downer was one of the few sketches where I broke, and I remember watching Horatio Sanz laugh so hard that tears squirted out of his eyes. I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-level...

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.

Right then, in a nutshell: this one hasn't a single bone of obedient - little - wife material in her heavenly body. Hasn't she? Then what kind of bone does your expertise detect? Fermin came closer,...

With him big Phil from Notting Hill, an old 'face' from the sixties, a pin-up gangster with a 'Mars Bar', weal scraping his left cheek, and of course two 'wag' slags in tow, trussed up like French...

Maybe your aunt is funny in quiet moments with her friends because like many women her age, she was taught to not draw attention to herself. And maybe she also noticed how men of her generation...

MAJOR HOOPLE, situation comedy, based on the comic strip Our Boarding House, by Gene Ahern.

Yo mama is so fat… she put on her lipstick with a paint roller.

Driving is boring," Rabbit pontificates, "but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.

Wrinkles was her big gray cat. Sierra named him Wrinkles because when he was a little baby he had a wrinkly face. He slept in Sierra's room, but not always on the bed. Mommy said that was 'cause...

Them Frenchies!' 'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench.

But it is infamous that they have not told you!' declared Eustacie. 'Je n'en reviendrai jamais!''If it's all the same to you, miss, I'd just as soon you'd talk in a Christian language,' said Mr....

Now that I had assigned myself an act without jokes, I gave myself a rule. Never let them know I was bombing

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.