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.
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.
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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.
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
I've been fortunate because I got the gift to do comedy and drama. When you can do both, you get twice as many parts as anyone else.
