Comedy Quotes
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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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If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.
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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 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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A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.
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My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
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When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
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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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My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.
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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'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
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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.
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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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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'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 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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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 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 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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To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.
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A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.
