Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

I fed my ego, but not my soul.

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.

I feel like a lot of comedies out are just the same consistent joke.

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.

I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world.

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way. And when you're filming, the thing comedy depends on becomes a much more difficult commodity. The thing you depend on is spontaneity.

I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people who are older than me. But to be vital in comedy, you have to exist in a world that's dominated by young people.

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

I feel the acting conservatory taught me how to be a working actor in the 1700s. We learned stuff like 'to the back of the auditorium, to the back of the auditorium' and the liquid "u." 'The payment is duuue on Tuuuesday.' I also learned how to fence. If anything, when I moved to Los Angeles, I didn't fit in, in any way. I had to do comedy, because I was talking so pretentiously.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

If everyone is mature, there is no comedy.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? If I'm a game show host, will I get an offer to do a dramatic role in a movie?

I find Billy Eichner to be hilarious, though I also imagine that for many, a little goes a long way. Billy provides a kind of comedy the Parks and Recreations show did not have - an insane person screaming at everyone, and our job going forward, as it is with all of our characters, is to develop him and make him more three dimensional.

If I'm committed to something really stupid, then I'm in a comedy.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor do not know, that's mystery!

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?

I, for one, can't wait for this election to be over, because the curse of Donald Trump in a satirical comedy way is that, one, he's such a large character; it's hard to satirize at times. Two, he's sucking all the air out of every room he walks into so every attempt leads to covering only him. You can't turn a corner in New York City without people talking about Donald Trump, without talking about the same things about Donald Trump.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.