My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.
Carrot Top

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
Courtney Love

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.
Johnny Vegas

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.
Dick Van Dyke

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
Dick Van Dyke

I will always love to perform standup comedy.
Shelley Berman

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
Shelley Berman

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
Maureen O'Hara

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Laurence Olivier

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.
Joe Rogan

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
Joe Rogan

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
Joe Rogan

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Elayne Boosler

I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
Norman Wisdom

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Angela Carter

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar

I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!
Sophia Bush

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.
Al Franken