Comedy Quotes
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Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.
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Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.
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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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Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.
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One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.
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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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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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I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators.
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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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Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good space to work those things out and educate everyone about the different experiences and different race groups in South Africa.
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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 love to do comedy, but music is really my heart.
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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 do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.
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Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
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I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
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In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top
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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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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 came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.
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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.
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I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.
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We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.
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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.
