Comedy Quotes - Page 38

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

We couldn't live without comedy.

Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.

One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is that there is an expansive feeling to each segment. It's not reductive. It doesn't seem like sketch comedy.

It really was a unique experience to me to have a television show, Comedy Bang! Bang!, that I really cared about so much, and to know that it was the end, and know that that was the ending of it. We had a wrap party, and we thanked everybody. You don't get that a lot, especially in comedy.

I enjoy doing physical comedy. I'd love, you know, them to throw me some shtick that way. I'd love to do that, if they need physical comedy, if they'd let me display my wares that way.

I enjoy doing physical comedy.

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.

I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them.

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.

I was so thankful that I got to go back to comedy and I felt bad that I had abandoned something that I guess I was naturally given and lucky to have an loved all of my life, but didn't love it anymore because I didn't get to do it the right way.

I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.

I stopped doing romantic comedies. I just stopped. They're terrible. They're bad. They're not funny and so they shouldn't be a romantic comedy because most of the time they're not romantic. They shouldn't be called romantic comedy.