At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
I was so sad that 'Best Friends Forever' got cancelled. I thought it was a great show and NBC didn't give it a chance. I'm a big fan of the NBC comedies.
If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.
The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies like 'Enlightened', 'Veep' and 'Girls'.
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.
Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.
Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.
I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.
I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful enough at it all, we'll see.
Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.
