Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could... →
John Oliver
I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of... →
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the... →
People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little... →
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... →
Laurence Olivier
I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been... →
Edward James Olmos
I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.
Elizabeth Olsen
I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 - you... →
Eric Christian Olsen
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
Robert Orben
I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.
Patton Oswalt