Comedy Quotes
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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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A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!"
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Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
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I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.
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What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.
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I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray to that. But I do okay, in that regard. I mean, my stuff gets bought, so it's all right.
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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
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T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.
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I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
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If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.
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Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.
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If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.
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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.
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I love to do comedy, but music is really my heart.
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It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.
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I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.
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It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
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I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.
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I've remained friends with all of them. We'remaking a fun kids movie and it's a comedy so we're just having fun and running around fighting these aliens.
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With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
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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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I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
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I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile.
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I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.
