Quotes About Comedy

I was always playing very stupid people, or the fat mate of the main girl.

People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.

I was doing a bit that stupid people should be slapped. But the more I did it, the more I didn't like that connotation, the violence and all that. The more I thought about it, I thought they should just wear signs. And, man, it just took off.

I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.

I get involved in the political, but I don't bring it to the stage because that's not my style.

I have no detectable hair style.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.

There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the truth. Chris Rock. I love Chris Rock. He's funny, but he's also poignant. He's not there just to make people laugh; he's there to make people wake up, too.

I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.

Obviously comedic styles do change.

Our job as directors is to really give the audience a sense that all this exists in a universe somewhere. Even if it's a slightly more stylized or comedic world than we live in, it's still really important that it has an authenticity and integrity to it.

We let the show breathe more. We focused on the comedy from a broadcast point. It became more stylized and interactive.

I'm a clown. I'm a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

Alien Chutney is just what the name suggests it is. Its music that is so funny and quirky and weird that it feels entirely alien to the listener; yet, the content and the subject matter is so Indian and relatable, it's still chutney.

The biggest killer to funny is hyper sensitivity to certain subject matter and Montreal is as guilty of that as L.A. or New York or San Francisco.

Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

Comedy isn't subjective like music. You either get the laughs or you don't.

Comedy's really subjective, you know.

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.