“When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.” PeopleWayHardPlayWould BeComedyFrontsTimingStand Up Comedy Author:Dean Norris
“I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.” ThinkingPersonsHardReasonComedySeeingSeriousDramaHarderSillyDramaticCraveBeing Silly Author:Evan Peters
“I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.” RealEndsHardPlayHalfComedyGolfRoundsWoodsChecksGolfingTickFunny GolfPlaying GolfGreat GolfingFunny Golfing Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.” FeelsImportantHardComedyMy Family Author:Christine Taylor
“It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.” PeopleHardGovernmentComedyDownsizing Author:Wanda Sykes
“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
“The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.” HardFactsStoriesProblemJobsComedyHorrorStandardsDespiteLabelsGenreDirtyToneNo ProblemWovenWhimsicalFunny StoryDirty Jobs Author:Christopher Moore
“As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.” HardGovernmentHappensNextComedyRegretVictoryBoundsLabourI RegretFilth Author:Stephen Fry
“When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantTryingWellsWarHardComedyFansSeriousGenreGenre IsWar Movie Author:Ben Stiller
“In romantic comedies there's a certain ceiling and a floor that you can't necessarily love as hard, or hate as hard, or have as much pain, because you sink the shop of the romantic comedy. But in a certain drama, like some of the ones I've been doing, the ceiling and the floor was my own. And in many ways, that was a higher ceiling and a lower floor, so that was more of a band-with for those emotions.” WayHardPainCertainHateMy OwnEmotionComedyHigherDramaBandShopsCeilings Author:Matthew McConaughey
“It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.” IfsEndsHardDoneShowsThreeHoursComedyMinutesSixSevenInterviewsThe End Of The DayTonightConcerts Author:Howie Mandel
“The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.” FeelsRealHardComedyFiguresTricksHard ThingsReal You Author:Michael Cera
“The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.” PeopleIfsHardPlayRealitySituationComedySeriousWallRedUltimateBallsTragedyLivelyBounceRubberUltimate Reality Author:Mel Brooks