Quotes About Comedy

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

Not baked goods! BAKED BADS!!!!" --The Tick

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

Actually, sir, Mr Fink-Nottle was asking after you. He's gone up to the bar.' 'Gussie, Gussie, Gussie,' I sang to myself while striding to the oasis, 'a guinea to a gooseberry the booby's in a pickle.' 'Bertie, I'm in a pickle.' 'What-ho, Gussie. I had a sort of feeling you might be.

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Funny movies are funny only in a full house. When the place is nearly empty, you notice how after every joke there's a deliberate pause in the action to allow for a wave of laughter from the audience, and since this evening no one was laughing, the whole thing began to seem sad

I have made you very merry at the expense of all our friends; but do not go on to suppose that, because I have made fun of them with you, I am obliged not to make fun of you with them. I warn you that there is no such understanding between us.

I'm not against half naked girls — not as often as I'd like to be.

Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.

Writing for late night is really good for learning how to write when you don't want to write. You have to produce every day. It's also very good for refining the difference between your point of view and the host's.

When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'm noticing and aware of and thinking about, because when you're doing a series, you think about more than just jokes... you know, when you're doing a comedy, you think about what's going to reflect people's experiences, in a way.

We're not scientific comedians, thinking like, 'Things have moved on, we need to do this, we need to reflect the world in this way.'

So often, I think, in these relationship comedies, they don't necessarily reflect the people that I know. They don't reflect myself.

I try to be kind, and I try to reflect that in my comedy, but I'm also incredibly bad at being mean. I can't pull it off effectively, so I always end up reverting back to politeness.

There's a lot of levity to 'Offspring' and I just love that the costumes reflect that.

I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.

When the comedy community turned on me, I had a lot of reflecting to do.

Comics are just mirrors. People can either laugh at the reflection or be disgusted by it.

I drink Peet's Coffee, and they're a very authentic company. They don't try to be something that they're not, and I think that's reflective in my comedy as well.

Audiences like me doing action and comedy. I am a jovial person and have been so from childhood. I like to laugh my way through my work, and that attitude reflects in my roles. Even women hate me doing rona-dhona roles. So I don't do emotional films.

I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.

When we make a comedy film, its important to have a light atmosphere on the sets so that the mood reflects in the film.