Quotes About Comedy

Trying to be funny is arguably the least funny thing you can do.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

There's so many funny things to say about being with Charlotte. I've worked on a few bits about it - not to be indiscreet but because the shock of culture and values is so interesting.

I just feel like there are a lot of funny things that happen in this world and I guess that's for the good and the bad.

Humor was how I got through everything in my life. I used to find a funny way to get out of situations. That's who I was. That's who I am!

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'

Comedy can take you a lot further in getting your point across. People are entertained, and then, by being entertained, they get your point.

'Balls of Fury' was my first time directing, and that's a movie that I think parts of it are great.

And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.

I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.

It is rare for a joke to emerge fully formed and it is worth grafting away until it is absolutely right. Though perversely too much work, too much thought, can destroy a gag completely.

Romance-comedy films usually get led by the main actor and main actress, just the two of them. Indeed, I was not sure if I was ready to bear the responsibility before casting in '7th Grade Civil Servant,' but I started gaining more and more confidence as the drama went on.

I met the guy who started off the whole Babuji jokes. I removed my chappal the moment I saw him. But that was all for fun. I told him that he has done what I couldn't do in my 50-year career. I wanted to see the man who had the gall to crack such jokes.

Luckily, I'm not a gambler or a drinker or - you know, I get my fix of comedy.

There is a part of me that really just thinks it would be so funny to see the 'Veep' characters in 'Game of Thrones.'

'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created 'Bunk.'

There's not really a gap between my comedy and my art; it's all the same thing.

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.

Comedy, if it didn't save my life, certainly gave me a very different life.

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

When I was on 'Top Gear' they thought it was funny I used to have a Vauxhall Cavalier convertible.

I loved 'Freaks and Geeks.' I don't know a better show.