Quotes About Comedy

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

If you are a stand-up you can hone your material over successive performances, based on the audience response. Changing a single word or altering the pace or emphasis can make a previously failed witticism work.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

There is a rhythm to a good joke, a certain pacing.

'Namastey London' is my favourite Bollywood film, it is a complete pack - it has entertainment, drama, emotion and comedy.

'Gujarat 11' has a good script; it is a full package of entertainment, comedy, emotions and has a message for the audience.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

A joke is just a paintbrush. It takes someone funny to paint something beautiful.

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

Brad Paisley is very funny. Who else is funny? I think Reba McEntire is very funny.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.