“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.” KnowsWantFirstsWholeUsedActorsAudienceComedyImagineWeekFirst TimeExcitingCamerasShockRehearsalChaoticOld DaysSitcomStunningMinstrels Author:William Shatner
“I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.” ComedyCamerasObnoxious Author:Keenen Ivory Wayans
“I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun.” WorldWantKindFormArtistGirlActorsFunComedyCamerasHip HopHipsComedianHopsSlapParodyHip Hop Artist Author:Pauly Shore
“People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.” PeopleShowsSoundComedyCamerasPhonesClubsConcertsBitesSound BitesComedy Shows Author:Tracy Morgan
“I was open to anything. That doesn't mean I would do anything, it just means I was open to anything. I've met for dramas, single camera comedy, multi-camera comedy. I take each script as an individual project.” MeanIndividualComedyDramaMetsProjectsCamerasScripts Author:Skylar Astin
“I've always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that's how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.” WayWellsComedyMy FriendsCamerasTimingRollingAussies Author:Alex O'Loughlin
“Obviously, my stuff has been more in the comedy realm, and I really believe that if I'm laughing behind the camera, then I think the film will be funnier.” IfsThinkingBelieveHas BeensFilmStuffBehindsLaughingComedyCamerasRealms Author:Will Packer
“With comedy, you get an immediate response. I'm the whole kit and the kaboodle. I am the whole thing and can steer the whole situation how I want to. With film, you are basically in one area. Comedy is straight to it and the film is heavily shaped the camera and editing, so it's different.” WantDifferentWholeFilmSituationComedyAreasCamerasResponseEditingSteers Author:Joe Torry
“When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.” MadeDifferentComedyPersonalityMarkCamerasScaryHopefullyGreat PersonGreat Personality Author:Serena Williams
“[on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977)] We were really worried about changing over from a three-camera, half-hour comedy to a one-camera, full-hour drama. The audience wasn't ready for the switch - even CBS billed us in their promos as a comedy. In fact, the whole thing was impossible. But we didn't know that.” KnowsWholeFactsThreeHoursHalfAudienceComedyImpossibleReadyDramaCamerasSeriesWorriedDramaticGrantsTransitionMaryHalf Hours Author:Ed Asner
“[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get super funny people to say your own lines, say their own lines, say things in their own way, and every scene is a live rewrite in front of the camera.” PeopleKnowsWayWantNeedsCharacterStoriesTogetherActorsIndividualLinesComedyFrontsSceneCamerasStructureCome UpDryHanging OutGeometryWeavingFunny PeopleSuper Funny Author:Jeff Schaffer
“I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused because we weren't doing the script. We were doing all this improv and then Diddy says to him... Pharrell's like I don't understand what's going on and Diddy goes, "We do a lot of improv". (laughter) I remember being we just made him into a comedy nerd. We somehow turned Sean Combs into a comedy nerd, so.” MadeRememberComedySceneLaughterCamerasScriptsVideoConfusedNerdSeanCombs Author:Nicholas Stoller
“My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching Candid Camera, I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'” I CanNightParentCan DoLaughingSawsComedyHeardTelevisionLaughterUnderstoodCamerasSense Of HumorLaughedOne NightCandidPranksCandid Camera Author:Howie Mandel
“Mel [Gibson] could stage physical comedy and put the camera in such a way... I mean, we did some really funny stuff, and he had some great ideas about how to do it. It was a delight to work with him in that regard.” WayMeanIdeasStuffComedyStageRegardCamerasDelightGreat IdeaFunny StuffPhysical Comedy Author:Keith Carradine
“Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.” ShouldMatterComedyJokesCamerasFancyLighting Author:Fede Alvarez
“Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.” DoneComedyTelevisionTypePerformancesCameras Author:John Mulaney
“If I was at the Comedy Cellar at midnight you yelled at the back of the room. But you, for television, play it to the camera because yes you're communicating to the people at home using the studio audience that's right in front of you as a guide for that.” PeopleIfsPlayHomeRoomsAudienceComedyFrontsTelevisionCamerasCommunicateStudiosGuidesMidnightCellars Author:John Mulaney
“Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.” UseHumorLightFunnyUsedComedyWeekRedPoliceCamerasAssumingLocalsDriversPolicemenSurveillanceCongressmanBrothelsRed LightsSurveillance Cameras Author:Dennis Miller
“I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.” WayRealComedyPolicyCamerasClubsSmokingComedy Clubs Author:Chris Rock
“Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.” PeopleNeedsNatureComedyNeededGunCamerasProtectionMortalsProtectedEcologyEarnestTamedSafari Book:On photography Source: On photography
“The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.” LittlesRealityStudyComedyGroupsMastersSceneDegreesPerceptionIntelligentCamerasMajorityBackgroundsMediumsIntimateBroadsTruthfulFormatBanterComedicArchesVernacularPerception RealityMasters Degree Author:Matt LeBlanc
“I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.” FirstsComedyUniqueCamerasLocationMtv Author:Pauly Shore