#comedy

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. ↗

— Tina Fey

#audience #comedy #down #dress #her

Comedy was all I ever wanted. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#ever #i #wanted

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#bringing #cheated #childhood #comedy #controlled

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#come #comedy #dark #dark place #place

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#comedy #out #painful #quite #serious

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#aspects #attack #being #books #comedy

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#did #failure #first #five #i

More people are going out to comedy shows than they were before. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#comedy #comedy shows #going #more #more people

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#brain #certain #childhood #comedy #events

All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#answer #comedy #funny #general #going