“Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.” PeopleThinkingRoomsLaughingComedyJokesSittingResponseZoneTwilightSubjectiveVisceralPersonal ThingsTwilight Zone Author:Todd Phillips
“It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.” PeopleKnowsWellsDoneCharacterKidsLevelsRoomsDarknessComedyComplexesRelateComplexityDe NiroComplex CharactersBelievability Author:Jeremy Sisto
“I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.” GivingLongSaidRunningRememberLinesRoomsLaughingComedyLosingGive MeFoundationScriptsBobLong RunsDressingsDressing Rooms Author:Jeffrey Tambor
“Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.” MenWorldHumansGamesSocialRoomsDealsStruggleComedyHuman NatureReflectionMen And WomenDrawingViolentDustCivilizedCrashRepresentationConvincingSocial LifeCorrectnessOuter Worlds Book:The Complete Works of George Meredith Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.” IfsPlayRoomsSupportComedyCuttingWrittenLowsDrawingKitchenStable Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition) Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)
“The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.” LongHouseRoomsComedyWorstConversationTablesGet UpMagnificentDiningDining RoomsOld Houses Author:Paul Lynde
“My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.” PeopleCharacterRoomsComedyTasteTragedyDrivenUncomfortableFlawsEnjoyableSketch ComedyPersonal Taste Author:Vince Vaughn
“To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play.” GivingPersonsImportantPlayStarsRoomsComedyEasierPermissionComrade Author:Alex O'Loughlin
“The only way I'd want to do something in television would be if it was about how I think as a comedian. I'd need to be able to be a creator. That's what I enjoy - I enjoy coming up with comedy, so it'd be very difficult for me to be sitting in a room and have somebody come in and say, "Here's your script! Learn these lines!" That's not fun. At least not for me.” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsWould BeAbleFunEnjoyDifficultLinesRoomsComedyTelevisionSittingScriptsCreatorComedian Author:Brian Regan
“In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.” PeopleIfsBookEnoughShowsRoomsAudienceComedyDirectorsTheaterCastsAgentsComedianGood EnoughCastingStand Up ComedyStand Up Comedian Author:Jim Jefferies
“I LOVE THE COMEDY CLUBS AND THE CLOSENESS OF THE CROWD. HOWEVER THE MORE YA DO THE BIG ROOMS THEY START TO BECOME YOUR HOME AS WELL AND YOU ADJUST TO THE SURROUNDINGS. I LOVE THEM BOTH. I MISS THE CLUBS BUT THATS WHAT YA WORK FOR TO DO THE BIG ROOMS!” WellsHomeBigsRoomsComedyMissingCrowdsClubsSurroundingsClosenessComedy Clubs Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“I follow the baseball team on the Internet more than I do the football team. Generally you can get a Nebraska game anywhere. Before I started doing big arenas and stuff and had a tour bus when I was just working comedy clubs way back when I would always listen to the games in my hotel room on the Internet.” WayBigsGamesStuffRoomsComedyTeamFootballInternetBaseballClubsHotelBusArenaBack WhenFootball TeamHotel RoomsNebraskaComedy ClubsBaseball TeamWay Back When Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.” PeopleWorldYearsHumorFunnyLevelsRoomsComedyMinesSevenFootballerScottish Author:Frankie Boyle
“I was in a hotel room in Dallas, and I was jerking off so much and so sadly and pathetically, that the phone rang, and I thought it's them, they're complaining. ... "Sir, could you please stop?"” FunnyRoomsComedyPleasePhonesComplainingHotelDallasHotel Rooms Author:Louis C. K.
“I can't believe we got grades in gym class. I've never used anything I learned in there. "All right, I'm standing in front of a room full of strangers. Based on what I learned in gym class, I will throw a red ball at a fat guy."” BelieveI CanFunnyUsedGuyRoomsClassComedyFrontsRedStandingBallsStrangerFatsGradesGymGym Class Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel room is write a letter. "My dearest Gwendolyn, I arrived by nightfall at the Embassy Suites. It will be a fortnight after my return that this letter shall arrive. Allow me to explain the curious charge at the ledger. It is because I miss thee so much, darling, I accidentally ordered Sorrority Sisters 7."” ThinkingWritingFirstsFunnyRoomsComedyMissingReturnLettersCuriousTheeHotelDarlingHotel RoomsNightfallEmbassyFortnightStationery Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I drove myself to the Emergency Room. That's a nice relaxing drive. "Noooo, after you. Merge-everybody merge."” FunnyRoomsComedyNiceEmergenciesEmergency Room Author:Brian Regan
“When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.” PeopleFirstsBlackWhiteRoomsComedyBlack People Author:Trevor Noah
“Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.” WholeActionFilmPerfectRoomsComedyAirDirtyFingernailsAction FilmsDraining Author:Morris Chestnut
“The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on the editing room floor, so it gives you a lot more room to experiment I guess. But I really enjoy doing it. I'm very comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.” IfsGivingEndsFilmEnjoyRoomsComedyComfortableExperimentsGreat ThingsIdiotExposedEditingTappingPhysical Comedy Author:Isla Fisher
“Editing was hard for me. It was hard to be in a room by yourself and not have that collaborative spirit. Comedies are really tight and timing is everything.” HardSpiritRoomsComedyTimingEditingTiming Is Everything Author:Jerusha Hess