“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.” EndsWholeCharacterFeelingsRealityLostStuffLosesComedyEmotionalEmptyConnectionsViewersStrainBananasEmotional ConnectionFunny Stuff Author:Mike White
“TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and studied his fellow passengers sitting in front of their personal TV sets. They were just having the greatest time, there was so much joy in their eyes, .. And I looked to see what they were watching. And it was all out-and-out comedies. So many people watching The Longest Yard. And I just got the feeling that, 'You know what? People just like to let it all go, and have a laugh'.” PeopleKnowsFeelingsEyeFilmJoyLaughingComedyFrontsTvsSittingFellowsFlyingPlanesYardsFestivalsPassengersTorontoAisleCameronFilm FestivalsHave A Laugh Author:Cameron Crowe
“There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to do a comedy whose chief characters are photographic enlargements. Those people we see in doorways. Newlyweds, sergeants, dead girls, an anonymous crowd full of mustaches and wrinkles. It should be terrible. If I focus it well, it will possess pathos without consolation. In the midst of those people I will place an authentic fairy.” PeopleIfsShouldWellsCharacterFeelingsPastGirlDoubtComedyFocusTerribleTheaterCrowdsChiefsNo DoubtFairyMidstConsolationWrinklesDoorwaysMustachePathosSergeantsNewlywedsEnlargement Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.” ShouldShowsFeelingsComedyTensionShould IDaily Show Author:Rob Corddry
“Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a different animal. People are being served nachos and there's a blender going off in the background.” PeopleDifferentFeelingsEnjoyAnimalComedyFocusTheaterClubsBackgroundsComedy ClubsDifferent AnimalsBlendersNachos Author:Brian Regan
“I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.” IfsThinkingRealFeelingsLevelsComedyMusicalEntertainmentRelateEntertainingRooted Author:Ryan Gosling
“Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, its the best feeling in the world.” WorldFeelingsDifficultComedy Author:Brandon Jay McLaren