Comedy Universality Quotes

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.

Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.

Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.

I'm always ready for TV. I don't have to edit my jokes - when you work clean, you can work anywhere.

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

I think comedy is a bit more international than people credit. I happily watch lots of American shows and American comedy films. If I did a list of the top 10 comedy films in Britain, there's no sense that it would probably be different than yours.

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.

When I walk out on stage, I don't know who's in the audience. To me, in my little fat skull, the laugh is just the widest demographic you can get.

There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.