I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be married living in the suburbs. Every time I try to plan my life out it just doesn't come to pass, and I think that's a great experience.
I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.
I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said, look, when you're the big person, when you're the rich person, poor people can say stuff about you, but it's downright wrong and brutal for rich people to beat up on poor people. He said people who are larger can lampoon people who are skinnier, but not the opposite.
I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.
I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.
I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.
One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.
It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.
When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.
I think that there's room to grow, as far as being a person of color in film. I went to the theater the other day, and there's a whole bunch of Valentine's Day movies coming out. And the only ones that you see a lot of us in are us goofing off and clowning around; it's this kind of pseudo-romantic comedy kind of thing.
As a news person, you can't spend all your time responding to a Comedy Central star. It's not what we do.
I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.
Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.
I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.
I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.
I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.
Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.
The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.
I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.
Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.
After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.
