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Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.
The majority of my work in games, outside of 'Depression Quest,' has been experimental pushes into comedy games. I think there are a lot of intersections there.
If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.
All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.
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.
I love mustaches with all my heart. There's just something about sketch comedy and mustaches.
Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.
I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.
I've a belt that I have worn for every single stand-up comedy session since I was 19. I fear if I ever lose it, my career would crumble. That's my one OCD.
Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.
In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.
Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change.
In general, even when I'm not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say the most offensive things.
I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art.
There’s a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn’t fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.
My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.
At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
More than an adult comedy, 'Great Grand Masti' is a naughty horror comedy, more on the lines of 'Masti.'
So many comedy shows came and went but it was 'The Kapil Sharma' Show that excelled.
In 'Comedy Nights With Kapil,' we had fixed characters and we were under a contract that we could not work for other channels. But it's not the same with 'TKSS.' I can do shows on any channel.
Comedy can be fun no matter what you're playing. It always has the potential to be a blast.
It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.
People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.
I remember watching 'Abbott and Costello vs Frankenstein' continuously as a kid and being amazed that my horror legends were making a comedy.
I have always felt that the rise of what became known as alternative comedy was born out of the loins of the alternative theatre movement.
Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.
Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.
I enjoy doing these silly little videos, and a lot of stuff online is stuff I actually created for my live comedy shows.
I love musical comedy; I love comedy in general, and I have varied taste in terms of books, film, theatre, and culture.
When I was a television broadcasting student in 1993 up in Ottawa, Canada, and my friends and I started making a show, I consciously set out to apply comedy to technology. I started tomgreen.com back in 1994, and we weren't able to put video on there yet, but we were aware that that was coming.
I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
I've worked a lot in comedy. As much as I love playing dramatic roles, it's always nice to be able to have some humor around when working.
All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.
I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.
I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.
The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy.
The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.
What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.
I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.
I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.
I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.
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