Comedy Quotes - Page 57

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

You exaggerate your own reactions.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.

Comedy is rarely funny.

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

Never really intended to be a comedian, just sort of fell into that, but always wanted to be in show business, or something to do with making comedy.

There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.

Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper."

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

I did a guest shot on a comedy series where they did 20 to 30 takes of everything. It's just gone by then. The joke is over. It's not funny anymore, and then of course, the editor's the one that has to figure out the timing. I think a lot depends on that.

There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20 minutes. So I don't think they can really do a beginning, a middle, and an end anymore. There's an awful lot of one-line jokes; almost every line is a punchline. It's not the same, but there's still good comedy around.

Class has always been a staple of British comedy. We've always been able to laugh at it. When British shows are translated to America, the absence of the equivalent class structure there often causes them to fail. But over here we've always got comic mileage out of it.

I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

The reason you often get in comedy is because you're not getting laid.

To me, comedy is a game.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!