The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.
R&b, poetry, I'd like to do everything. But I'm an entertainer and entertaining is not just music. I can do comedy; I'm one of those guys, I can stand up there with a mic. I'm not gonna freeze.
I do feel I'm kind of a magnet for crazy, and if there isn't enough crazy, I will insert myself in a situation that I feel has comedy potential.
To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.
Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.
I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.
I think comedy is funnier when it's real.
I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.
Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.
I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it.
Romantic comedies, if done badly, can be catastrophic.
Comedy's really subjective, you know.
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.
It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.
What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote that I knew I could get financing, you know? I believe my other films could be better, but right now they're not being made. But they will eventually.
You know, I'm a big comedy fan.
I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.
With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.
Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.
I often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it.
If everyone is mature, there is no comedy.
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.
That's one of the things about comedy - I think it works best when it's contextualized, as opposed to kind of an island of cleverness.
