Comedy Quotes
Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.
I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.
I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.
The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.
I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.
It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.
Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.
In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.
I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.
Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.
The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.
People want to consume what you're putting out there, and you can create a really strong following of fans and admirers, and people who are invested in your career and your comedy.
I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.
I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.
A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.
I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.
When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.
Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny.
I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.
I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.
Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.
There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.
The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it. Everybody has the capacity for change.
That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.
It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.
I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.
Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.
Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.
I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.
I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.