I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.
Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends.
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the div...
There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.
There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay.
The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.
With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.
Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.
Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.
I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
