Comedy Quotes - Page 29

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

The only weapon we have is comedy.

Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.

Theres nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

There's an argument that maybe [The Grinder] was better suited for streaming or cable. I don't know. I still like to think there's a place for smart, subversive, original comedies on networks.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

I loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music.

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a mythical premise for a stupid joke, I found playing off truth got the best result.

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.