Top 1200 Writing Comedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From 1987 to 1992, I was on the road for 40 weeks a year playing comedy clubs, and that was during the 'comedy boom.'

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

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

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.

Our comedy is just falling over, funny faces, arguments, all the comedy basics, really.

So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.

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

Comedy Central made their own awards show. They were named best comedy channel.

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

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

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

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

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

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.

I never approach comedy thinking 'I know it all.' Comedy is tough. To make people laugh is not easy.

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

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.

When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.

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

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

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

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

I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.

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

My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.

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.

I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

Comedy can be fun no matter what you're playing small or big comedy part. It always has the potential to be a blast.

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

Feeling supported when you are doing comedy is the best way to make comedy - at least, that's how I think.

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.

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

I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

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

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

I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

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

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.