Quotes of: Standup-comedy Keyword

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.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.

Agee on Film, Vol. 1: Essays and Reviews

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Poetics

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.

Bill Hicks

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.

Burt Ward

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.

Erinn Hayes

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.

Malcolm D. Lee

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'.

Sue Naegle

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

Maureen O'Hara

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

Nicholas Stoller

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.

Olivia Wilde

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.

Paul Feig

Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.

Paul Haggis

I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.

Penn Jillette

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.

Penelope Keith

My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.

Paul Verhoeven

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.

Richard Armitage

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

Rory Bremner

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

Rachel Dratch

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

Robert Gottlieb

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

Rashida Jones