“There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.” FeelsImportantDifferentShowsBigsNextComedyTvsStudiosTv ShowsNext DayComedy Shows Author:Jenny Slate
“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
“I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.” PeopleThinkingWayLittlesImportantStuffBitsComedyLittle BitDown AndIrrelevant Author:Seth Gordon
“It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensImportantIdeasRealShowsBodyComedyIntellectualSexualityPeculiarHuman BodyWilde Author:Stephen Fry
“The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantFactsComedyEmpathyJokesImportant ThingsSurpriseSurprising Author:Ricky Gervais
“I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.” FeelsWritingImportantEnjoyComedyI RealizedCrapWriting Comedy Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.” PeopleIfsMeanImportantForceWatchesLaughingComedyOne ThingTelevisionConversionTunesSaneNightclubs Author:Tom Lehrer
“I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never want to do material that makes people laugh at the expense of making other people feel bad - not to say I'm not guilty of that at times. ... I try and make humor out of the really important issues of the day, like Hot Pockets and elevators and not wanting to get out of bed.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingKindImportantAudienceLaughingIssuesComedyMaterialsBedHotWideGuiltyAppealsRangePocketsExpensesDividesAspireMaking People LaughElevatorsImportant IssuesNot Guilty Author:Jim Gaffigan
“My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.” ImportantIdeasWould BeBehindsTeachComedyHeroLimitsAcceptableWhat's ImportantMy Hero Author:Lea DeLaria
“I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.” PeopleFeelsTryingPersonsI CanImportantEyeAudienceComedyAchieveStageCommunicationEarsImportant ThingsContactCommunication SkillsPaceTuning Author:Bill Cosby
“Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?” ImportantShowsFilmComedyDramaFundamentalsDancingIngredientsPaceTimingShow Business Author:Charles Walters
“Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It's not the way it's supposed to be.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayImportantShowsTodayDiesComedyJokesTragedySupposed To BeFranceParisTonightThink TwiceComedy Shows Author:Conan O'Brien
“People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.” PeopleThinkingImportantShowsKidsYoungParentEnvironmentComedyJokesRadioComicBentAppreciatedPremiumComedy Movie Author:Carl Reiner