Comedy Quotes
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Part of why I think I have so much fun working in the mockumentary genre is that you can cut to pretty much anything at any time. People are now so conditioned to watch documentaries - they know how they operate, and that you can introduce a new character by cutting to them, and now they're in it. Similarly, being able to treat a sidebar idea that has nothing to do with your main story really seriously, the way the rest of it is being treated - all the pomp and circumstances lend themselves, I feel, to making comedy feel really earned and funnier and weirder.
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Black people who want to do comedy go into standup, where our heroes opened a lot of doors. Improv doesn't have a ton of heroes that you can look to.
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What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.
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The real heart of comedy is uncovering a truth about yourself or about the world that you didn't see.
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I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.
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I was so thankful that I got to go back to comedy and I felt bad that I had abandoned something that I guess I was naturally given and lucky to have an loved all of my life, but didn't love it anymore because I didn't get to do it the right way.
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Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.
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I remember 'The Cosby Show,' but that was something completely different. Comedy. There was a lightness to it and a sort of unrealistic perfection.
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A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.
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The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.
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I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.
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Ellen DeGeneres is great. She has this natural style, and she makes comedy look so easy.
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There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.
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The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.
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I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.
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I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity.
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The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.
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I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
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That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.
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I never feel comfortable! I'm always anxious. I'm always all over the board. That said, I like doing comedy because it's easy to tell when you're getting it right because people laugh, and you can hear it, and they're smiling, and you can see it.
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The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.
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The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.
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To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.
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It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.
