Comedy Quotes
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Comedy has been crossing the country with remarkable speed way before the Internet, social media, even cable TV.
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And then, movie-wise, I'm writing a couple of things. They're all comedies. It's the only way I know. I'm also being sent scripts, which is really nice, kind of off the back of this, so I don't necessarily have to generate my own stuff. I'm just looking for something that's explosively funny and relatable in equal measure.
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How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make a little lame segue. "Hey, that's a big lotto jackpot! Speaking of lotto, there was a lot o' crime in the city today."
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Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, '13 Going on 30,' and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk - pretty well, I thought - to Michael Jackson.
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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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Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has to come from the character.
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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 did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
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There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
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When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.
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What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.
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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 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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A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.
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If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.
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We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.
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I love the dark comedy in 'Breaking Bad.'
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
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I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.
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From 1987 to 1992, I was on the road for 40 weeks a year playing comedy clubs, and that was during the 'comedy boom.'
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All of my favorite comedy has always been of the grounded variety. Even 'MacGruber.' I think that MacGruber is a really grounded character.
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In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.
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Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.
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Comedy is not pretty.
