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I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist.
I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.
Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.
I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.
Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.
There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.
'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a human comedy, it's a drama, and the characters all, in a way, fit the teenage archetypes, but they don't become stereotypes because each of the actors brought their own presence and their own personality to the screen.
Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.
I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.
Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.
I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.
Certain shows, when it's all comedy, it's like when you eat something that's too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need that salted caramel.
A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.
I think comedy can be a way of sugar-coating a pill that needs to be taken, and whatever I complain about onstage, I hope I justify the negativity by using humour to make the point.
The whole - it's the economy's bad. It's bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years ago in a horrible economy. I created jobs. And we just started breaking even after a year and a half, barely. For that entire time, I have had to pay the difference of what we owe in rent and taxes and everything out of my own pocket.
There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.
It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.
The days are long. I'm not complaining, but it's a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.
I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.
I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.
I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.
Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?
Rock n' roll is at a standstill, I think - and comedy is taking its place as something exciting.
I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that is totally different from 'The Blues Brothers.' I'm a comic actor, but I'm an actor, too.
I just showed up at the Comedy Store. You keep showing up, and you keep showing up, and eventually, somebody notices.
Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.
The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.
I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.
We shot 'CBGB' in Savannah, and then I took another project there afterwards called 'Killing Winston Jones.' It's a dark comedy with Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Jon Heder, Danny Masterson and Aly Michalka. It's a great cast and a beautiful film.
I don't like to bad-mouth other shows, but I was very disturbed after seeing 'Starlight Express.' It had very little to do with musical comedy as I know it. It had to do with sound and spectacle and records and technology and amplification.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
I worked in Trenton, and then I got sidetracked into comedy and then onto 'SNL.' And then into being a live performer - what I do now; virtually that's what I am: I'm a live entertainer.
You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.
I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.
When I came to America, it was Dave Chappelle and a lot of comedians on ComicView. That was my first exposure to stand up comedy, actually.
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
In theatre, I get comedy or nice lead roles. I don't understand a grey or negative role.
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.
I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.
I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.
I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.
I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love science-fiction.
The thing with physical comedy is that you have to actually try to do the thing you're trying to do - you can't fake it.
The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.
Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.
I love comedy, but more than that, I love comedy that has a message and that has some stakes.
I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.
And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.
I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.
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?
I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.
There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the gut. So those punch lines start penetrating the bullet-proof vests.
I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.
Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
Captain Hammer is obviously the most fun to write because he is not so bright. And 'not so bright' is comedy gold. Not to mention 'kind of a...' Captain Hammer's high school was named after him. While he was still attending.
I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.
Comedy did a lot of things for me. I mean, 'SNL'? Not too bad. Not too shabby with this comedy thing. I have really worked on my comedy and really upped it some notches.
I'm obsessed with 'The Americans.' It's one of my favorite shows. I also love 'Baskets' - low-brow, high-art comedy.
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