If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.
For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.
That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.
I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.
I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.
I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.
I would love to get into feature films; I'm willing to do an action flick, I'm willing to do a romantic comedy.
I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.
Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... I'm more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
Comedy is hard work. People expect you to be funny 24/7. So if you're not constantly cracking up your friends, it can hurt you professionally. They may not read your book or come to your show. 'She's a comedian? She's not that funny!' It's unfair 'ca...
Tell The Truth , and Shame The Devil.
Comedy is really best when watched with other people, and I don't really understand people who sit at home watching comedy movies on Netflix.
