I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.
Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.
Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.
I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.
People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.
I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.
I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.
One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.
All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.
The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often I'm surprised at what an audience will or will not laugh at. I have to stay very, very open to an audiences first exposure to that material and how they react to it.
I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.
I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.
For instance, our music, They Might Be Giants, has this element of humor, which is probably the most uptight part of what we include in our music, because we're in part very self-conscious guys, and we want our music to stand up to the test of time, not just be visceral comedy records. We love humor and comedy, but there's this aspect to it that runs counter to what is included in most music.
There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.
Somehow that doesn't feel like a natural human thing to do, to go to those dark places, you have to kind of force yourself to do that. And comedy, it's like you're excited to get there in the morning every day.
I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree
I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
