“Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.” WarRunningSituationComedyStyleTelevisionDramaElementsSpringEuropeMachinesResponseMythInevitableLogicalAdvertisementsIrrationality Author:Arnold Aronson
“every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.” KnowsActorsComedyDependsElementsTragedySurpriseHardestInevitableLinearElement Of Surprise Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir
“The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.” HumansHuman BeingsComedyCreationElementsCapacityComicInstructionForbiddenLearning ExperienceIncorrigible Book:The humanist in the bathtub Source: The humanist in the bathtub
“Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.” BigsThreeComedyElementsRecognition Author:Bill Maher
“When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.” KnowsFirstsFiveComedyMagicElementsJokesStuckTricksBanjosMagic TricksFive Elements Author:Steve Martin
“To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience.” TryingImportantAudienceComedyFineInvolvedEssentialsElementsBraveAlways TryingStand Up Comedy Author:Bill Maher
“Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.” PeopleIfsWayTogetherIndividualResultsComedySeriousElementsHappeningsBasesFirmRealisticEmbarrassing Author:Christoph Waltz
“I do also think it eludes genre a bit - not in any groundbreaking way but you can't quite call it a comedy and you can't quite call it a romantic anything. It's not quite a drama either really. But it has elements of all those things.” ThinkingWayBitsComedyDramaElementsGenreEludeGroundbreaking Author:Colin Firth
“I love every aspect of the show. I've been very involved. It was important for me to be very involved in, you know, all of the creative elements. And so, you know, it - David, you know, being brought onto the show, you know, that - I always just wanted to make sure that we maintained the sophistication and intelligence of (the) - and the comedy that we were able to establish in the mini-series.” KnowsImportantShowsAbleWantedCreativeComedyInvolvedElementsAspectSeriesSophistication Author:Debra Messing
“We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.” PeopleLittlesWantedBitsComedyElementsLittle BitIntelligentEngagedTragic Author:Alice Lowe
“Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done.” DoneFunComedyElementsSurpriseElement Of Surprise Author:Zach Galifianakis
“It's a very different show because of the elements that we're putting in. There's so many different styles of comedy, but Mr. Show was unique to Bob and David - two of the most brilliant performers and writers there are. Their show was based on them. Our show is a bit more broad. We have a cast of 7, we have guests. We can be slightly more topical.” TwoDifferentShowsBitsComedyStyleElementsUniqueCastsBrilliantBroadsPerformersGuestsBobDifferent StylesMr Show Author:B. J. Porter
“I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.” HumansEnvironmentComedyExerciseDespairBehaviorElementsEverydayVicesDenyStupidityPsychologicalReformMake SenseWildernessDaily LifeSense Of HumorToxicUrbanHuman BehaviorAttemptingDelightedMallsBlundersMaliciousScapes Author:James Howard Kunstler
“Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.” ArtI CanFilmFormComedyExpressionDramaElementsEntertainmentCinemaCombiningVersatileComposites Author:Takeshi Kitano
“Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.” WayShowsStarsComedyDramaElementsDancingVarietySuspenseClassicIdolsIngeniousAmerican IdolDancing With The Stars Author:Tom Shales
“It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.” MenWellsMayHas BeensReasonLawComedyBloodJudgingCostElementsTragedyOne ManPenaltiesAnother Man Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes