Top 1200 Sketch Comedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day, I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

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

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.

Comedy is not easy to begin with, but comedy that also dances with drama - it's so hard.

Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.

For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade and I loved those people.

For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I loved those people.

As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu.

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

The bulk of my work is comedy and I wanted to use the gaming world as a vehicle to deliver comedy.

When you get on a comedy show, people assume you're a comedian. I'd say I'm more of a comedy nerd.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.

Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy.

I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

I'd like to do more dramatic roles but I would never give up comedy to do it. I've seen a lot of actors that do a complete 180 degrees and say: "I'm done with comedy, I want to be taken seriously." I take my comedy very seriously and I want to be taken seriously because of my comedy. I think it's more fun for me. I enjoy laughing and attempting to make people laugh. So I'd like to do more drama but I'd never do the 180 thing.

I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

I'm very interested in trying to make comedy shows that are a bit bigger, more theatrical, more of a "show." Some people might say I'm trying too hard, but that's a compliment to me. I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.

Comedy is my first love; that's my main goal in life - to keep doing comedy.

I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.

The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.

Fleabag' is its own genre. It isn't comedy. It isn't drama. It isn't even tragi-comedy.

The formula to my music is that it has to have comedy in it. The vulgarness cannot be digested without a little comedy.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

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.

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.

When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

Comedy is hard to do, and I don't know why it doesn't have its own category in awards. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. It doesn't get respect. It's hard. It's really hard. It would be more gratifying to get something for a comedy, because it doesn't happen much or at all.

I think I'm known mostly for comedy because most of the work I've done is comedy and that is in turn because most of the work that is offered to me is comedy, so I end up doing more comic roles and therefore being known for them.

It's tough to do comedy. After 'Mister', my inhibitions with respect to comedy have come down.

Comedy makes me soar, and comedy is very serious business.

I always wanted to give comedy a try and I feel Comedy Classes' is the best platform for that.

I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

I like watching comedy shows. I only watch comedy or action.

I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

I liked horror and comedy, basically, from a young age, but I just ended up getting into comedy because there was - I could do stand-up comedy, and that was my way into this business, and then there was no stand-up horror, and I didn't know how to get into that world.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.