Comedy Quotes
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The '80s was a great decade for comedy.
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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.
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I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.
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I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.
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Fear is what makes comedy funny.
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I like grown up comedy.
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I still don't really know what my style is. I like a lot of different kinds of comedy, I like watching it and I like being inventive and original. That's the problem with doing a longer set - you can't do every joke that you have because some stuff contradicts other stuff. Even when you know that the audience knows that you're joking and it's not true, you still can't do a joke about your family dying and then later talk about your Mom. I mean you want to keep some kind of cohesive order going.
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Trump is good for comedy but bad for the world.
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When I started comedy, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan. I thought if you did stand-up, you were supposed to know how to act, write, and host. I thought it was all one thing. That's why it doesn't feel like I'm transitioning to acting: because in my stand-up, I do characters all the time.
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I like very straight comedy.
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I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.
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Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.
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I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.
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Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in New York - I can do way more stand-up here than in Los Angeles.
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
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I love doing comedy.
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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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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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I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom.
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I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
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The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.
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I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.
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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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A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.
