Amy Hoggart Quotes

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Our comedy is just falling over, funny faces, arguments, all the comedy basics, really.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

I see myself as the female John Cleese.

'Scary Movie' was a different type of comedy than I'm used to. I've mostly done sitcoms, so working with David Zucker, who wrote the film and who directed the last two 'Scary Movie's and 'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun,' was a lot of help.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

I love a good Steve Martin, Martin Short scene where they're being super physical - I don't mean to compare myself - but I relate to their type of comedy because they do crazy stuff but come at it in an honest way.

It bothers me when people say 'shock comic' or 'gross-out' because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy. Man-on-the-street-reaction comedy. Visually surreal comedy. But you do something shocking, and that becomes your label.

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.

I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.

I think people are purists about what sketch comedy should be, and I think sometimes having too much fun can be a little annoying to some people.

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.