Joan Rivers Comedy Quotations

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

I felt comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

Your anger can be 49 % and your comedy 51 %, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 %, the comedy is gone.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.

Comedy is truth. We should not apologize for it.