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I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
These guys Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac claim they're the Kings of Comedy. They may be funny, but they ain't no kings. That title is reserved for Rudy Ray Moore and Redd Foxx.
I'd love to try comedy, which I've never actually done. I could fail miserably at it, but I'd have fun working it out.
I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.
When you do comedy shows, you usually don't finish until about 11 P.M. Then you have this adrenaline dump, and you get hungry.
Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.
There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.
I came to Vegas because I wanted to, not because I thought it could help my career. I didn't even know they had comedy clubs here.
I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.
Denver has smart and energetic crowds that appreciate good comedy and don't take themselves too seriously.
My comedy is kind of a counteraction to some of the comedy I don't like. Or things I don't like.
When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy.
I was a teacher before comedy, but it was good because no two days were the same, which this job is too.
I think what's very French is the mixture of comedy with intimacy and a kind of reflectiveness. For U.S. audiences, the nearest thing is Woody Allen.
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.
I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.
We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.
There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.
I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.
I love to play humorous moments in dramatic shows. That's always the most fun: to keep the logic of the character in a show that's basically action-adventure and then play the comedy moments.
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.
When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.
The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.
When you're leading Marines, you don't screw around, so the comedy is limited in uniform. And when you're a comedian, you can't be heavy handed and come across with tales of gore or material that people won't understand, so I try to keep them separate.
In college, I was a theater and film major at Kansas University. I always had an affinity for comedy. I could probably quote everything from 'Caddyshack,' 'Stripes,' and all those great comedies from the '80s.
I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.
I've always been cast in authority roles; I think because I have that presence... Comedically, I can play against that pretty well. I enjoy playing that arrogant ignorance. That's one of my favorite games to play in comedy.
I don't mind it so much if I get type cast as an authority figure. I get to do comedy no matter what it is, so it doesn't bother me.
Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.
'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.
Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.
During the first season of 'Human Giant,' I remember the people at MTV were all over us. They hadn't really done a live-action short-film comedy show, so they didn't know what it was going to be, and they were worried. But after that, they let us do whatever we wanted.
When I first started out, I kinda just wanted to do comedy stuff, and thankfully, I had a fair amount of success. I've been able to be on, I think, almost virtually every American sitcom.
Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre. I thoroughly enjoy comedy, especially because it is inherent to my personality.
I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.
I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I'll just try comedy. And I loved it.
I'm known as a dramatic actor. But because I don't do a lot of comedy, I love watching it because I can really immerse myself in it and not think.
As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands.
I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic.
I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do.
I haven't done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I'd love to do comedy. I think it would be refreshing.
'Birdman' is basically 'All About Eve' - the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate - reimagined as a Batman suicide mission. The movie couldn't be actor-ier.
My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.
I have this friend who does comedy but also music, and I really enjoyed his stuff, and I wanted to do that.
When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.
I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.
What I wanted to do was the comedy, and I found that. I found my bliss, I think.
Honestly, my biggest education regarding improv comedy actually came on the job working for 'My Boys.'
It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.
A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was a blast.
Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often dressed up as an older, disheveled woman.
Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.
I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.
I'm not playing a fixed character on 'Comedy Nights Live;' in fact I would be seen portraying various characters.
I'm a comedy geek so anything comedy related, whether that's standup shows, improv shows, I'm all over that. That's my favorite way to be entertained always.
I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.
As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
There's a show on Comedy Central that I love called 'Nathan for You,' which is kind of a reality show, almost a prank show, where this guy Nathan Fielder goes around helping struggling businesses. He's so hilarious and so awkward.
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.
You didn't find comedy in 'Magadheera.' Any film high on emotions doesn't need such elements.
Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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