Comedy Quotes
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A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.
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My style can't be held within a pixel medium. Like, it needs to be performed in a living, breathing space. People need to have all their senses ready to take on my comedy, and unfortunately, TV alienates at least their sense of touch, taste, smell.
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I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
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There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
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Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.
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I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.
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What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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I'd love to do more comedy. It'd just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. Some broad slapstick would be great. Falling over banana skins would be wonderful.
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Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
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With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
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Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
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Brian Posehn went up at 4:45 in the morning. And he gets lost at a certain point. I don't know if we kept him getting lost on the CD. That joke isn't as technically well delivered as I'm sure it is in his Comedy Central special. But the whole disk has this looseness and flavor to it where anything can happen that a lot of people will prefer.
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I was taught by a lot of great comedy writers to go for the reality in a role, and the comedy will come through.
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The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.
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I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.
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I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.
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I've always been attracted to comedy that was really close to the line and made people a little uncomfortable, because that's where progress comes from.
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I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.
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My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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I've always done comedy, and I've always wanted to do a dramatic role. I wanted to be a sheriff.
