Comedy Quotes
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The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.
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I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.
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I always think that some percentage of feedback is going to be gendered in comedy.
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I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.
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I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.
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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
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The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.
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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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Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
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People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.
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I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.
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I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.
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I definitely think that comedy is my niche.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
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Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
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I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.
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I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
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It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.
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When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?
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Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.
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What makes comedy so effective is that if you’re making them laugh along the way, they’re going to listen to the deeper cut stuff.
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I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.
