Comedy Value Quotes

I don't like comedy that makes me feel worse about the world than I already felt before I turned it on.

It's one thing to make people laugh, but after a certain point, comedy is almost cheap.

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

What's funny is funny. It doesn't matter what expense it's at. There are people who don't like that and I understand.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There's a lot of supposed tween comedy on TV that isn't particularly funny, but it's got a lot of laugh track. And I go, 'Please don't watch that. Please just watch something that's actually funny.'

As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.

I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.

I think there are a lot of shows out there that value being hip or cool over being funny and heartfelt.

Gilbert Gottfried, I think, is just the most underappreciated comedian in the world. I think that he doesn't get enough credit for how funny he is.

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh.

I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

We're all basically decent human beings so if 3,000 people are laughing at a joke then it's worth telling.