Comedy Quotes
On laughter, dark times, and comedy as survival.
This collection treats comedy as something closer to coping than entertainment, with one entry stating plainly that its real purpose is to hide pain. See Comedian quotes for related themes.
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As for making video comedy, pretty much anyone can do it. When I got started, I just filmed it with my webcam and used iMovie to edit the video, which I still use.
I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.
I certainly think, obviously, rhythm is a huge part of being an actor. It just is unconscious, to a degree, but particularly in comedy, rhythm is pretty essential, and there's probably something more physiological going on.
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.
Fleabag' is its own genre. It isn't comedy. It isn't drama. It isn't even tragi-comedy.
When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.
I never set out to build some behemoth comedy career. My taste in movies is far more eclectic than that so my aspirations as a filmmaker are far more eclectic than that.
You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.
I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.
The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works.
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy.
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.
