Comedy Quotes
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I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.
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I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.
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The more you try to look sexy, the lamer it is, so you just have to commit to the comedy.
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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 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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Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
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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 wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.
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It really was a unique experience to me to have a television show, Comedy Bang! Bang!, that I really cared about so much, and to know that it was the end, and know that that was the ending of it. We had a wrap party, and we thanked everybody. You don't get that a lot, especially in comedy.
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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 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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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'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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.
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There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
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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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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
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Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.
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I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.
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I was actually looking at comedies and wondered, 'Why is every comedy for a women a romantic one? I was so done! Then I said, 'Could I look at every script Jim Carrey rejected?' It didn't center around me getting a man.
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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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Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.
