Quotes About Comedy

If you want to laugh, see a comedy. If you want to cry, see a drama, and if you want suspense, see a thriller.

With 'The Humans,' I've found that because it's related to very familiar forms - the family play and the thriller, almost a genre-collison play - some people want it to be one or the other. Either less dark and more of a family comedy or a full-fledged thriller with blood and ghosts jumping out of closets. Everyone's taste is different.

A woman director is not obliged to make a feminist film. She can make what she wants, a thriller, an action film, a comedy, or whatever, but hopefully, she will be informed by a gaze that is female.

I'm just trying to give the best human expression that I can to any particular genre, which could be comedy, could be drama, could be horror, could be thriller.

In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.

There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.

For people that don't know and haven't seen a Bollywood film, you need to go and see one. They give you everything in one. They give you your comedy, your fear, your horror, your thriller, your rom-com. It's everything in one.

When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.

To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two.

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

I've always been entranced when it came to musical comedy; it's probably my favorite thing. It's a real true American form, and it's big, like Shakespeare big, when it's right. It's loud, and it's big: you have to be ready vocally and physically. It can bring people to their feet and can be as thrilling as a circus.

'Kanchana 2' will be more funny and thrilling than its prequel.

'Billy On The Street' has no doubt always been about the people we talk to. That being said, it thrills me that the show really has a dedicated following in the comedy world.

In England, there are four major cities within a two-hour drive, so the comedy circuit thrives as a result.

Comedy thrives on immediacy and I got fed up waiting months to find out if a radio sketch show was being commissioned.

My favorite television show has changed throughout the years. I used to think 'Married... With Children' was really funny. But now that I've gotten older, it's 'The Golden Girls,' believe it or not. That shows kills me.

The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it.'

I haven't got an ad lib for people throwing bread rolls at my hat.

We don't really consider it a prank show because we're not pranking other people - we're throwing each other under the bus.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.

I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.