Quotes About Comedy

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing against them, but I wasn't interested in just your normal sitcom, boy meets girl.

While growing up, every sitcom you could think of, I would watch it, and I loved it.

One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.

I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won't be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are.

I'm a sitcom junky. And I love rom coms. Mind candy.

What makes 'Derek' a different kind of sitcom - if it is even a sitcom - is its sincerity.

My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'

You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades.

We look at 'MyMusic' as the future of the sitcom.

In the back of my head, I always thought it would be great to become an actress on a sitcom.

Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.

Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.

I couldn't see myself doing a traditional sitcom.

I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.

I didn't want to have to follow 'Everybody Loves Raymond' with another sitcom. Let it be my sitcom legacy, and leave it at that.

Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.

Flashback episodes are a tried-and-true sitcom device, but they always work!

Instead of improvisers who want to be funny by themselves, we aim to try and make the scene itself as funny as possible. As a creator, I think that's someone you'd rather work with, whether it's a movie or a sitcom; that kind of methodology is good for collaboration. People want to be with those kinds of performers.

I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.

I would like to direct a sitcom like 'Sumit Sambhal Lega.' It was interesting. It had a great script also.

Just saying I'd like to do a sitcom is poison words, isn't it?

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.