Comedy Quotes
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In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.
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He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".
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I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.
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I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.
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I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.
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What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
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I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
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It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
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A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.
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I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.
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Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
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There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
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I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
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Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.
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I'm going to keep doing the comedy and the art that I do. I'm going to keep uplifting marginalized voices, and I think that's my place to do that.
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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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Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.
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You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.
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To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.
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I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.
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Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.
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When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
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We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a knock on Mr. Show at all, because it's my favorite comedy show of all time. Even before I worked on it. It's just really refreshing to write something so stupid and say, "We gotta do that."
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Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
