Comedy Fort Quotes

Chapter 1 JEREMIAH WAS BLACK. HE COULD FEEL IT. THE WAY THE sun pressed down hard and hot on his skin in the summer. Sometimes it felt like he sweated black beads of oil. He felt warm inside his skin, protected. And in Fort Greene, Brooklyn - where everyone seemed to be some shade of black-he felt good walking through the neighborhood. But one step outside. Just one step and somehow the weight of his skin seemed to change. It got heavier. Light-skinned ~ Jacqueline Woodson

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do. ~ Anne Dudley

The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but [(500) Days of Summer] Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets Spider-Man [as his next project]. Are you kidding me? You cannot win. ~ Manohla Dargis

What's SQ?" asked Evan.
"Sexual Quotient."
"What's that?"
"Basically, it's your odds of getting laid. Everyone has an SQ. just like everyone has an IQ."
"I've never heard that term before."
"That's because I made it up."
"That figures. Finally applying your actuarial skills to what really matters, eh? ~ Zack Love

When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that's power. A lot my heroes - Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, the Wayans, Adam Sandler - they get it. And I've always felt that Andy Samberg is the future of comedy. ~ Terry Crews

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don't think I'm as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people - which is why I think I did so well. ~ Kevin Hart

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy. ~ Seann William Scott

I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television. ~ Miranda Hart

I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray to that. But I do okay, in that regard. I mean, my stuff gets bought, so it's all right. ~ Scott Aukerman

After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented. ~ Scott Aukerman

There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit. ~ Tommy Chong

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer. ~ Chris Rock

Also, my humor is really dry-witted, Canadian humor, so some people get it and some people don't. I'd be great on "The Office." I would like to be on that show. And, I could see me doing romantic comedy films, and stuff like that. ~ Tinsel Korey

My girlfriend said she wanted me to tease her, so I said "Alright, fatty." ~ Jimmy Carr

I think comedy is a good way to deal with anything. I hear about people in the hospital who are ill, and they use humor to help them through it. I think it's a great remedy for many things. ~ Brian Regan

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people. ~ Amy Poehler

I'd love to do a comedy like 'Bridesmaids;' I think that would be so fun. I would play the Kristen Wiig character. ~ Emma Roberts

Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go. ~ Marlon Wayans

Can you faint from awesome boy scent? ~ Nikki Godwin

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh. ~ Rob Delaney

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify. ~ Alan King

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist. ~ Trevor Noah

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day". Yeah, looks like He rushed it ~ Bill Hicks

There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield ~ Ryohgo Narita

I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career. ~ Ilana Glazer

My favorite genre of movies growing up was the romantic comedy. ~ Jennifer Finnigan

They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. ~ Karl French

Hi Maggie, it's nice to see you again,' he said, smiling so sweetly I thought I might need insulin. ~ Molly Harper

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often. ~ Hill Harper

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with ... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would. ~ John Carpenter

She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch. ~ Jill Shalvis

When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick's Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists. ~ Greg Fitzsimmons

The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy. ~ Jessi Klein

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way. ~ Jordan Peele

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something. ~ Elayne Boosler

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic. ~ Mindy Kaling

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas. ~ Harold Ramis

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it. ~ Chris O'Dowd

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax. ~ Rita Rudner

I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to. ~ Colin Hanks

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet. ~ Matthew Lillard

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference? ~ Orson Scott Card

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties ... and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all. ~ Frank Herbert

Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows. ~ Paul Scheer

Comedy is tragedy revisited. ~ Phyllis Diller

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example! ~ Kit Williamson

There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment. ~ Siri Hustvedt

Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha! ~ Jeff Kinney