Comedy Quotes
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'Friends' is easy to dismiss, but it's really good television - the art with which those actors play with comedy shouldn't be denigrated. And they also know how to play irony, which I think a lot of English actors might find quite difficult.
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I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.
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Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment.
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Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.
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I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.
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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
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I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.
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For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.
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I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.
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Some comedy has turned into, 'Donald Trump's bad, isn't he?' That's a true statement. But where is your joke?
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You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.
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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
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The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.
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My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.
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Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.
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I've been to Canada, and they love - oh my God, they love their stand-up comedy in Canada. I've been overseas to do shows for the troops all over the Middle East, and I actually went to China recently and did shows, not for the troops, but just for local Chinese people, and Americans that have moved there, and things like that. It was fantastic. They got it. They're way smarter than we give them credit for.
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I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.
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When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'
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It's not easy to direct in another language, especially comedy.
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I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.
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I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.
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We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.
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We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.
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To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.
