Stephen Colbert Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time - of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

  Stephen Colbert

  Humor, Laughing, Comedy

  Parade interview, September 23, 2007.

• I'll make fun of anybody. We're all about falling down and going boom on camera.

  Stephen Colbert

  Fun, Fall, Cameras

• Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get to do it twice. It helps if you've done whatever the old saw is, 10,000 hours of it. Because I've done 10,000 hours of comedy, I have this database in my mind of what works and what doesn't work.

  Stephen Colbert

  Writing, Athletic, Intellectual

  Slate's Working Podcast with David Plotz, October 17, 2014.

• Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.

  Stephen Colbert

  Family, Leadership, Jobs

• I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

  Stephen Colbert

  Leadership, Work, Shoes

• As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu.

  Stephen Colbert

  Office, Nosferatu, Lasts

• Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

  Stephen Colbert

  Comedy, Satire, Ripe

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

• I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Talking, People

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