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.
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.
I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.
All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.
I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.
I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.
A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.
I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
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've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
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.
I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolera...
[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...
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
A bush-warbler, Coming to the verandah-edge, Left its droppings On the rice-cakes.
