Comedy Central was a great network, but ‚Chappelle’s Show‘ took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the ‚Chappelle‘ reruns. For BET, the ‚Real Husbands of Hollywood‘ has that same potential.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

I like a drama.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

Comedy’s about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you’re saying.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

But I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

I don’t like to be bored.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

We sold ‚Seinfeld‘ all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Disneyland is a show.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

I do watch some TV. I like the History Channel and National Geographic, and old shows on TV Land like ‚Sanford and Son,‘ ‚The Jeffersons,‘ and ‚Benson.‘

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

I was very honored to get to be part of ‚American Idol.‘

Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

I’ve been doing comedy longer than I haven’t been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on ‚The Tonight Show.‘ There’s truly nothing like it; it’s intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made ‚em up myself.