Comedy Quotes
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I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.
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Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
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Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
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There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
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There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
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My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.
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A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was a blast.
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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
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I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.
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That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.
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Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.
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You have to be so honest in comedy.
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I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.
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Comedy deals with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
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I am interested in complex characters who are difficult and have numerous sides. But I would love to do a comedy role - something maybe 'Monty Python'-esque.
Eugene Simon -
I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.
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Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.
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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
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My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching Candid Camera, I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'
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I'm sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.
