“I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.” WantLittlesPlayGuyDarkComedyCrazyDramaNot InterestedLooking GoodThrillersSidekicksGood Looking Guys Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.” PeopleSeemsGuyTalkingForeverComedyRight NowBoredFunny Guy Author:Bob Saget
“I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.” KindGuyComedyShirtsPantsShirt Off Author:Jason Sudeikis
“The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.” YearsGuyComedyTeamHavensWingsRadioLocalsLeagueFarmsMinorsRight Wing Author:Al Franken
“Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.” YearsFirstsSaidEnoughGuyThreeComedyWeekFeetShotsYeahMaking MoneyRanGatesThree YearsHad EnoughMisled Author:Al Franken
“To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.” KnowsHardGuyStuffComedyTeamCompromiseOther Guys Author:Cheech Marin
“Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.” LooksGuyKnownComedyNewsMusicalIdiotGood NewsNew Zealand Author:Bret McKenzie
“I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.” FirstsTwoBookIdeasFilmGuySimpleHalfMillionsNovelComedyPlansWrittenProjectsStonesFollowingPlanesConcertsCrashRollingDocumentariesStarksRolling StonesGreat BookPseudoTwo GuysJaggerPlane CrashesSimple Plan Author:Ben Stiller
“I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of locked into "Oh no, he's a serious actor." Well, I was a serious actor for nine years or 10 years and then I get into comedy and everybody said, "Oh no, he's funny. He can do comedy," and then all of a sudden, you're just a comedy guy.” YearsWellsSaidHappensGuyActorsCan DoComedySeriousTvsNineLockedNine Years Author:Barry Bostwick
“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.” FirstsTwoSchoolGuyActorsBlackActingTalkingComedyRight NowMurphyBrandoBlack Guys Author:Scott Raab
“I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.” HumorFunnyGuyComedyConversationStand Up ComedyEscalators Author:Jim Gaffigan
“The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine.” NeedsKindDoeGuyWhiteComedyToo MuchDemocratBoringSmokeSenatorsJuniorsCocaineShowing OffIllinoisWhite Guys Author:Tina Fey
“Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say nothing, I already painted enough, led enough and I don't even have to say anything. But those pauses don't belong to me. Jack Benny was one of the first guys in comedy to make the anticipation so great that during the pause people start to laugh before the execution.” PeopleKnowsTryingFirstsTwoEnoughHappensGuyLaughingComedyBarsRhythmAnticipationExecutionPausesSay AnythingSignaturesColtrane Author:Bill Cosby
“When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.” WantKindWould BeTodayWantedMovingGuyNextPayActingComedyDoorsMinutesDressesBoringCodeBoredPerformersTicketsDress Code Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“In junior high, there were a lot of really ugly guys who were popular because they made people laugh. I was like, "Wow, comedy is the great freer of hideous people." It was an incredibly liberating thing. If you ask a girl, "What do you want in a guy?" 99 percent are like, "I just want him to be funny." I thought, "If that applies to women, I'm set.” PeopleIfsWantMadeGuyGirlAsksLaughingComedyPercentUglyWowLiberatingJuniorsHideousWant HimJunior HighAsk A Girl Author:Mindy Kaling
“I think most teen comedies are probably played in a way that aren't geared towards people that are wanting to be entertained but also [see] something that has a lot of heart to it. The things we do in the movie - it has a lot of heart, and also it's really smart. The people and the characters that we are, we're really intelligent people that are using our tactics to get back at a guy. The moral of being who you are, and trusting yourself, finding your inner strength - I think that's something that most teen movies don't really dial into.” PeopleThinkingWayHeartCharacterGuyMoralComedyFindingsSmartIntelligentWho You AreInner StrengthGet BackTacticsReally Smart Author:Brittany Snow
“I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.” MenGivingWritingYearsKindTwoShowsGuyThreePoorRecordsComedyHappenedMonthsSixDecidedSticksRadioAlbumsTwo YearsCopiesRaysAdsThree YearsBobSix MonthsGave UpOther GuysAccountingPoor Man Author:Bob Newhart
“In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.” DifferentEndsGuyComedyOur LivesDadOriginalsScriptsPeter Author:Paul Reiser
“If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not "The Naked Guy." I don't care.” PeopleIfsLongCareGuyComedyFineDon't CareNakedI Don't CareNiche Author:Rob Corddry
“I'm perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren't actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.” FeelsHappensGuyGirlComedyTypeLimitsReputationComedianGirlfriend Author:Elizabeth Banks
“I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.” CharacterKidsActionGuyTermNaturalComedyAdventureMalesWrestlingExtensionsWayneMacho Author:Hulk Hogan
“People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.” PeopleGuyComedyScriptsPassingPassingsReputationScreenwritersSketch Comedy Author:Thomas Lennon
“I think the way WWE Studios is going now - they're going away from action, doing more drama, more comedy - it will open a lot of people's eyes. Because a lot of people see big guy, big frame: action superstar. We've proven, especially with 'Legendary,' that that is not always the case.” PeopleThinkingWayBigsEyeActionGuyCasesComedyDramaStudiosGoing AwayWweProvenSuperstarLegendaryBig Guys Author:John Cena
“I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.” WantFeelsI CanGuyFightingLaughingComedyCrySillyCrushZombieBad GuysGoofy Author:Laurie Holden
“There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.” KnowsWantPlayKidsActionGuyStarsComedyFansBeing TrueUpsetBad GuysDisappointGood Actions Author:Vinnie Jones
“I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's always a best friend and the woman has a best friend and they always antagonise each other and then they end up together at the end of the movie.” EndsSeemsTogetherGuyComedyBad Guys Author:Rob Corddry
“Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!” PeopleRunningGuyPoliticsPresidentCommunityLeadershipJusticeComedyPolicyOrdinaryEthicsConstitutionMarkMadHuman RightsSocial MediaTerrorismComplainingIdeologyPotPresident ObamaFree SpeechFoundersSpyDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceNsaKettlesZuckerberg Author:Jimmy Fallon
“For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.” FirstsGuyHousePoliticsNatureLeadershipWhiteHistoryDemocracyComedyGenerationsPolicyFirst TimeVoteIndividualityChosenIdeologyWinnerVotingSilverOnlineWhite HouseTurkeysFarmingPardon Author:Barack Obama
“America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word 'f__k'. And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say 'f__k'? It's like when they bleeped 'molly' at the VMAs. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out 'molly'?” ThinkingLooksShowsWisdomBodyRealityAmericaGuyPoliticsCommunityLeadershipJusticeDemocracyComedyGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyRight NowEthicsCookingStrategyHuman RightsIndividualitySocial MediaIdeologyCooksFree SpeechCivilityAcidPartisanship Author:Miley Cyrus
“A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.” LooksLittlesSometimesBigsBeautifulGuyStarsComedyRocksSweetTheaterBlowSmokeComedianRock StarCablesGlamorousGlorifyReally BeautifulMisty Author:Louis C. K.
“The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.” WorldWantedGuySpeakWhiteComedyMomMy MomImpressionComedianJamWhite Guys Author:Jordan Peele
“Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.” IfsWantMatterDonePlayGuyGoalChallengesRolesComedyHavensDramaScriptsTeethBad GuysWant SomethingGood Guy Author:Stanley Tucci
“I make comedies and I always try... I don't try but I allow to have at least 5% of the jokes or have some jokes that I know will be understood by only about 5% of the audience. It's that guy in the corner who gets it and laughs. But he has to have his jokes too. That's part of my audience. Part of my audience is the people who will only get certain things.” PeopleKnowsTryingGuyCertainAudienceLaughingComedyJokesUnderstoodCornersThat Guy Author:Alexander Payne
“It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of [Kupperman's] underground comics my shirt is literally soaking wet. This guy may have one of the best comedy brains on the planet right now.” MayDoneGuyReadingBrainComedyPlanetsRight NowShirtsLaughedWetCriedThis GuySoakingBest Comedy Author:Conan O'Brien
“I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.” PeopleThinkingGuyGamesEnjoyTakenComedyStand Up ComedyThe Love Of The Game Author:Dane Cook
“I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.” SometimesGuyActorsComedyComedianBroads Author:Matthew Lillard
“I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.” IfsSaidHumorRunningFunnyMovingGuyMy OwnFireComedyLegsBlockGamblingThis GuyExitOwn BusinessCasinosMind Your Own BusinessMinding My Own Business Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.” TryingHumorFunnyGuyComedyWeakMidgetTurtlenecks Author:Mitch Hedberg
“A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.” NeedsFeelsEnoughPlayMomentsGuyComedySeriousFindingsResearchFunctionSillyAnalysisDramaticUsualBentThat Guy Author:Christoph Waltz
“Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really happens, they might cry a little bit, but that's it. Horror movies are talking at the screen, guys are elbowing each other, laughing at each other because they got scared. That's the beauty of a horror movie.” PeopleLittlesMightHappensGuyBitsTalkingLaughingComedyCryDramaHorrorLittle BitScaredScreensEngagedPopcorn Author:Bruce Campbell
“As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy.” MindCareGuyComedyConcernedArgumentDon't CareI Don't Care Author:David Cross
“Stand-up is an art but since it's humor and it's funny - a lot of guys that don't think it's art are probably coming from the angle that they don't want to take it so seriously. I've always looked at it as an art but I don't look at it as a pretentious art. I understand it has to be taken lightly because it is just comedy in the end, but the good stand-up comics are someone with something to say.” ThinkingWantLooksArtEndsGuyTakenComedyAnglePretentious Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.”” WayWritingAbleGuyMy OwnActingComedyExpectationsLet MeInsecurityAcademicConfrontingActing Out Author:Charlie Day
“I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well, I guess I, uh... I guess I said something, and, uh... and then she got her feelings hurt." That's a weird way to phrase it: "She got her feelings hurt. I said something, and then she..." Could you more remove yourself from responsibility? "She got her feelings hurt." It's like saying, "Yeah, I shot this guy in the face, and then I guess he got himself murdered. I don't know what happened. He leaned into it."” KnowsWayWellsSaidFeelingsFunnyFacesGuyHurtResponsibilityTalkingComedyHappenedShotsMy FriendsYeahMadPhrasesGirlfriendRemoveThis GuyHurt FeelingsMad At Him Author:Louis C. K.
“I love the impatience of New York... You ever had somebody not ask you for directions, but demand them? You're just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy's like, 'HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!' ...You know, like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you're wasting HIS time.” KnowsFunnyGuyAsksComedyStreetsNew YorkLike YouWalkingDemandThis GuyHornsImpatienceTunnelsHollandFax Author:Jim Gaffigan
“How did we get to the point where we're paying for bottled water? That must have been some weird marketing meeting over in France. Some French guy's sitting there, like, "How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water."” ThinkingHas BeensFunnyGuyWaterComedySittingSellsMeetingsMarketingDumbFranceIdiotBottled Water Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I can't believe we got grades in gym class. I've never used anything I learned in there. "All right, I'm standing in front of a room full of strangers. Based on what I learned in gym class, I will throw a red ball at a fat guy."” BelieveI CanFunnyUsedGuyRoomsClassComedyFrontsRedStandingBallsStrangerFatsGradesGymGym Class Author:Jim Gaffigan
“If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."” IfsLooksFunnyGuyComedyDadToughYeahHotelPoolMurderer Author:Jim Gaffigan
“They always give you three ketchup packets. When you go back up and ask for more, the guy handing them out always treats you like you're taking from his personal stash. "Looks like my kids aren't having ketchup tonight."” GivingLooksKidsFunnyGuyThreeAsksComedyLike YouTreatsTonightKetchup Author:Jim Gaffigan