Quotes About Comedy

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

But at least I have my health," he said. It was a joke.

You're one funny enchilada

When he was directing some comedies by the revered nineteenth-century Russian playwright Chekhov, he started to notice how often people in nineteenth-century Russian plays faint — very often — so he called the production 33 Swoons and focused on all the fainting. Whenever someone fainted, a band played a fanfare. There was a different fanfare for men and women.

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

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You're a funny man, Post.

Maine Humor" is a very specific subset of comedy. It consists mostly of men with flinty, Down East accents giving bad directions to people from away.

But comedy is ingrained. A writer doesn't choose to be comic. You can choose a plot, or not to have one. You can choose your characters. But comedy is not a choice; it just comes out that way.

Jack had not only heard Billy Crystal's joke; he was genuinely impressed by Billy's imitation of Jack-as-Melody. "Christ," he said.

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.

I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.