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sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.
I support the homies, like Mike Jay and Hannibal Buress. And I listen to Comedy Central Radio in the car.
If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.
A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.
Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.
If you like a conversational style of comedy, if you like comedy that's a little dangerous, I'm your guy.
Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
e foundation to a good friendship is trust but the foundation to good comedy is by betraying your friends.
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.
I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.
And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.
I think stand is better now than it's ever been. I think it's the greatest time ever to do standup comedy.
Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.
We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.
I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.
Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a living.
I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'
The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.
I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.
I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.
I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.
It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.
People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.
An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.
I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it.
It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
One of the biggest heroes and influences of mine, especially acting and working in comedy, is Steve Coogan.
I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.
A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.
Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.
The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.
I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.
I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.
I really geek out with horror and like to delve into the subgenres, whether it's comedy or slasher or sci-fi.
Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.