“There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.” PeopleFallFunMistakeComedyOrdinaryMaking Mistakes Author:Norman Wisdom
“You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.” IfsKnowsWantTryingWellsFacesFallChallengesComedyOne ThingTerribleYour FaceChallenge YourselfPutting Yourself Out There Author:Lucy Liu
“Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.” EndsDonePlayDeathFallComedyCurtainsFalling Down Book:Poems and songs Source: Poems and songs
“Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.” IfsMenWritingHumansCharacterFallSocialComedyGroupsWorstDependsEgoBehaviorTragedyImpulseOne ManVersusFoeWirePitsSocial LifeMassage Author:Rita Mae Brown
“I think there's a difference between making comedy and reporting comedy. When you're a joke teller you can easily fall into the second, you can show up and just say the jokes.” ThinkingShowsFallDifferencesComedyJokes Author:Demetri Martin
“I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.” WritingFallComedyFalling In LoveInsaneComedy WritingWriting Comedy Author:Pearl Cleage
“I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. Enough Said had that stuff, but I wanted it to be fun and funny while also grounded in reality.” PeopleThinkingSaidSometimesEnoughRealityWantedFallFunStuffComedyPlotBroadsGroundedEnough Said Author:Nicole Holofcener
“When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.” DeathFallComedyTragedySilent Author:Mason Cooley
“The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.” KnowsLittlesMovingFallTermCommonAudienceComedyBraveAppreciationComplicatedAssLowestBe BraveBananasSlippingCommon DenominatorLowest Common Denominator Author:Mel Brooks
“I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together.” ThinkingFeelsEndsTogetherFallMy OwnComedyModernKissingFalling ApartModern Day Author:Elizabeth Meriwether
“In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.” MeanFallComedyLaughterBiggerSacredSilly Author:Bo Burnham