Quotes About Comedy

A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.

The success that I have in sitcoms comes from the fact that 60 percent of the writers are Jewish guys in their early to late 40s.

We're a comedy site and have made fun of every single race, religion, creed and gender. We've made fun of it equally.

OK, I have to admit that I go on TheSuperficial.com. That guy is so funny, he's just so funny... you know, I'm a news junkie, so I regularly flip between HuffingtonPost.com, CNN.com, and a site that's called MyWay.com, which shows me six different news feeds. And I go on DrudgeReport.com about once a day.

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.

They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

If we were all sitting around as different races and as different religions, if you were a real friend of these people, you would bust on them all.

Sometimes I'll be sitting with my friends; I'll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in me as a human being. A lot of mannerism, humor, mischievousness, my innocence. So I don't know if I bring him home so much as I bring myself to him at work.

I was being laughed at. I hated it, so I made an adjustment to control the situation. All comics learn that.

If I was married to a man, and I had the same life situation that I have, it's the perfect recipe for a sitcom.

I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

I don't have any favourites, but I like situational comedies, not forced ones.

I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.

I would love to do a biopic or a situational comedy.

I want to try something on situational comedy.

I liked the character very much and even in general roles like this entice me. I started my journey in Punjabi film industry with negative roles, and then gradually comic roles and situational comedy fell into my kitty.

'Band Vaaje' is all-in-all a comedy film. But all comic scenes are situational. The jokes are not just for the sake of punches. The film has proper story which we are sure that audiences will love.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.