Comedy Quotes

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.