Comedy Quotes
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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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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I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.
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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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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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I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.
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I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.
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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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I think people are purists about what sketch comedy should be, and I think sometimes having too much fun can be a little annoying to some people.
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I think, in comedy, you only hit about one or two great characters in your career. Sometimes my character will be just a sketch... what is the funniest situation to put this person in?
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
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People used to make fun of alternative comedy because sometimes it would be someone being funny, and sometimes it was a crazy man with a flute making no sense. And it's very easy to be like, yeah, that's not really comedy.
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I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.
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People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.
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So much of comedy is feeling comfortable with the point of view coming at you. So I understand it. There's people who I find hilarious now, but the first couple of times I saw 'em, I was like "What is this? I don't get it at all."
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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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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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I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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If you're gonna tell a story from beginning to end, I always think you have to have a great structure in a script. If it gets you excited and it's something you've never read before that's another plus. I think also with improv and that whole world of stand-up, that's a whole other organism of comedy that still needs a story, but it's more free-form. On the set, it is the combination of both those worlds coming together: a great script and an allowance to play with it.
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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 would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.
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When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
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We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.
