“The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.” IfsThinkingHas BeensInterestingComedyJokesJust Do ItJust Saying Author:Bob Saget
“I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.” WantInterestingComedyDramaProjectsGenre Author:Patton Oswalt
“So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.” ShowsInterestingComedyTheaterMixturesComedy ShowsLowbrow Author:Jasper Fforde
“I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.” PeopleKnowsShouldMomentsInterestingQualityComedyCarLuckyCinemaInsisting Author:Daniel Bruhl
“The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.” WayHumansRealHuman BeingsInterestingComedyTricksReal ThingsGrounding Author:Natasha Lyonne
“To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home.” IfsThinkingWayImportantCharacterHomeCareRomanceInterestingHalfComedyImportant ThingsMy WaySuperheroWay Of ThinkingWay HomeHalf Way Author:Stan Lee
“I actually prefer to work in as many different genres as possible as often as possible because I actually think the best way to be inspired and avoid any writers block or things like that is actually to be able to go from a comedy to an action to a horror to a adventure, that actually makes it easy for me to start over and get new ideas, and it keeps things interesting.” ThinkingWayIdeasDifferentAbleActionEasyInterestingComedyAdventureHorrorInspiredBest WayBlockGenreNew IdeasStarting OverWriter's BlockBe InspiredDifferent Genres Author:Christopher Lennertz
“Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could get a lot more work on TV playing clean but it's never interesting.” WayInterestingComedyTvsCleanComedianThis Is Me Author:Jim Jefferies
“Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.” WellsStoriesCertainInterestingComedyTensionResolveMelancholyResignationAwkwardness Author:Lorrie Moore
“Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.” ThinkingTermInterestingComedyEffectsStand Up ComedyLinkages Author:Mark Leyner
“You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.” PeopleFilmInterestingComedyPersonalityDramaCalmTraitsStableFlawedNeuroticPersonality TraitsInteresting Personalities Author:Woody Allen
“I like confounding expectations. I can expand what it is I am able to do, and hopefully get to do more weird, interesting projects like this. There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone. And how the audience perceives that... It's out of my hands. And I don't get that frustrated by it, because I'm on to the next thing at that point.” WantI CanHandsAbleNextStuffInterestingAudienceComedyComfortProjectsExpectationsHopefullyPerceiveZoneFrustratedComfort ZoneConfounding Author:Patton Oswalt
“I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantLittlesUseInterestingEmotionComedySeriousDramaBeatsGutsDevicesSeducing Author:Steve Coogan
“I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.” IfsRunningInterestingPayAttentionComedyMusicianTheaterRaisedPay AttentionClassicOrchestraViolinClassic Music Author:Larry Wall
“Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple of weeks ago. They were making comics - which were really satire - but it offended people. I'm not saying the reaction was justified but there's definitely a line when you're doing comedy or satire and how it might affect somebody. That's the thing you have to watch and I think you have to be respectful of it.” PeopleThinkingLooksMeanMightLinesInterestingWatchesComedyHappenedWeekDangerousCoupleCrossesReactionsParisSatireTerritoryJustifiedOffendedVery InterestingRespectfulBe Respectful Author:Corbin Bernsen
“Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.” IfsCharacterStoriesActionInterestingComedyFineDramaSci FiCompelling Author:Jensen Ackles
“I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think. Otherwise, you're just cruising down a path that's been traveled millions of times. It's cool to find the strange truth in those moments.” ThinkingWayFeelsMomentsAbleInterestingMillionsPathComedyStrangeTraveled Author:Kevin Durand
“There's a very interesting article or symposium to be written on just the real difference between comedy filmmaking and non-comedy. Because, you know, when you work in comedy, you depend on audience screenings to tell you about your movie.” KnowsRealDifferencesInterestingAudienceComedyWrittenDependsArticlesFilmmakingVery InterestingScreeningSymposium Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.” PeopleBitsInterestingComedyMentalityFrankJust BeingHerdsStand Up ComedyHerd Mentality Author:Dylan Moran