“I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world.” IfsKnowsWorldWantFeelsTurnsDarkComedyDangerousClockMainstreamEpisodesTurn-onSunnyPhiladelphiaThursdayDark WorldAlways SunnyAlways Sunny In PhiladelphiaSunny In Philadelphia Author:Rob McElhenney
“If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.” IfsMenArtMadeRealDreamTurnsCitiesComedyLaughterAssumingRepresentativesPlatoJungleMarxismPolisFuture Society Book:Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman Source: Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman
“Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny.” TryingChildrenEnoughFilmTurnsNaturalSimpleComedySeeingChildhoodSeriesResilienceThemePoeticGood EnoughNot Good EnoughRaritySmall Changes Book:When the lights go down Source: When the lights go down
“The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.” MeanReasonTurnsComedyThousandHundredRomanticScriptsRomantic LoveMean GirlsVery Romantic Author:Hugh Grant
“I’m sort of known in the comedy community as “Smooth Sailing,” just ’cause everything always goes great. I’ve always had success at every turn.” TurnsCausesCommunityKnownComedySmoothSailingSmooth Sailing Author:Jon Glaser
“All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.” PeopleIfsKnowsShowsTurnsKnow HowComedyYellingImprovising Author:Albert Brooks
“I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on. I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.” IfsThinkingWantStillsBodyWantedFilmTurnsSoundGoalSpaceTalkingWatchesComedyBrotherRaisedCinemaVisualsCompositionCartoonChuckAlways ThinkingFramingOrchestrationWarner Brothers Author:Alexander Payne