Comedy Quotes
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What I like about Rebel's style of comedy is she never plays the victim... she's never been fazed by her shape; it's just the way it is. She would mock her appearance whatever she looked like.
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In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.
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It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
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My first big gig was as a correspondent on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show.' My job was to parody TV reporters and political pundits. As a result, I was often invited onto cable news shows as comic relief.
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The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.
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I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
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A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.
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I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.
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I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
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I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Men and women are like cats and dogs. I've learned more about myself from women. My comedy is based on this.
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.
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'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
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I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.
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I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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The people running Silicon Valley are not making the show because they want to do a satire of Silicon Valley. They are just comedy writers, and they want to make a funny show.
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I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.
