Comedy Quotes
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When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
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I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.
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Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself.
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You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.
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'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.
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Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.
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At first, I was saying to my rep, 'I don't know if this is really my thing.' I get heart palpitations just watching basic comedy-horror stuff.
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I always try to get games of different genres. This is the reason Postal is a comedy, and Far Cry is a real, pure action movie - like Die Hard on an island - and In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale was my opportunity to do my epic, Braveheart, Lord Of The Rings, Gladiator movie. I try not to repeat myself in genres too much.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
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Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
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I do comedy in my room by myself, so it's so different to see how that all works and get the behind the scenes on how they do the gory stuff.
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I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
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I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.
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The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.
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I'm becoming more and more confident and am falling more and more in love with the whole world of comedy, and I think that's something that I really want to explore a lot more.
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It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.
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I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.
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I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.
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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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I started doing little amateur nights at the comedy club that was right next to the restaurant that I waitressed in when I was in university. I was probably 22 years old. I didn't do it with any intention of making a career out of it; I had just always valued comedy.
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Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.
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I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.
