Comedy Quotes - Page 47

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

I love comedies and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. ‘The Other Guys’ was not lazy.

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because that's the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take. But it was always really hard for me to find a script that I really liked.

I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.

I feel like women in comedy have staked out space for themselves and circled the wagons in this inspiring way to say that it's absolutely unacceptable and ludicrous to suggest that women aren't funny anymore in 2016. It just makes you look like a dinosaur.

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

I love comedy. I'm not known for comedy, but I love it. I've done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I made a funny movie.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

I love comedy, and I think thats sort of what comes naturally to me.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

I did an Off-Broadway show that was a comedy written by Ann Meara. We were like a family, and we did that show for a year. On Oz, I did feel like the cast members were friends and there was a lot of bonding. That said, there was a lot of testosterone. Once again, it was full of really intense theater actors with this writing that was really intricate and subtle.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

Comedy doesn't have to be loud and obnoxious and beat you over the head. It can be this really small detail that, when it computes in your brain, you think, "That's great. That's masterful."

I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.