In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.
here’s why I take comedies seriously: they present and celebrate the world in which we survive our own and others’ mistakes, follies, transgressions, and deep sins. However lightly, dimly, or bleakly, comedies revel in our survival—in the delay...
I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack ...
My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.
Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.
If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.
I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.
For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.
What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.
When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.
I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
The comedy of the wicked, Is the tragedy of the saint; But the saint’s comedy, Is the wicked’s remedy.
I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.
A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.
