I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.
Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.
When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.
I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.
'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.
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?
Every role that I have taken on has demanded some kind of emotional range. I really, really would love to do a comedy, but that opportunity really hasn't opened up.
I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.
I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done, and I've enjoyed one-hour television.
Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.
When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not.
I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.
Rupert Pupkin: I know, Jerry, that you are as human as the rest of us, if not more so.
