“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.” PeopleWritingRealityFormCultureLeftWonderComedyTvsStandardsRomanticHarderEntertainmentGenreClassicLegitimacyReality Tv Author:Nancy Meyers
“It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.” ShowsHomeWonderComedyTelevisionDramaMy FriendsDiedPainfulPilotsBack HomeTelevision ShowsPainful Death Author:Eric Ladin
“No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?” KindRealLeftWonderAudienceFireComedyStageReal LifeComedianDestructiveTransitionIdolsPrivate LifeFrenzy Book:I'm the One That I Want Source: I'm the One That I Want
“Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.” PeopleKnowsSometimesCan DoBrainWonderComedyGroupsSpecialCuriosityFortitudeSometimes I WonderEthnic Groups Author:Debra Granik
“When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.” PastPleasureResultsWonderComedyAdventureIdealsTriumphCharmDrsIngenuitySteampunk Author:Stephen Fry
“I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.” HumansCountryCertainFoundWonderComedyTroubleConditionsCarLuckAccidentsDriversHuman ConditionBad LuckPathos Author:John Prine
“If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you're OK.” PeopleIfsFunnyWonderComedyBedBaths Author:John Pinette
“She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.” LifeSaidHelpingWonderComedyForty Author:Bob Hope
“Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. It was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. Pat Paulsen was a master of comedy too. The Smothers Brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. We had a couple of our albums, including the Purple Onion album, translated in script form. It didn't work at all. It is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the Smothers Brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.” WorldWritingSaidHardFormLinesWonderComedyBrotherMastersCouplePerformancesIncludingScriptsAlbumsStealingImpressionHard TimesNonsenseProfessorsTimingPurpleOnionsImpeccableGreat Performance Author:Tommy Smothers
“I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.” ThinkingKindCountryWonderComedyToo MuchHugeAmountGreat WorkEnglish HistoryGreat Comedy Author:Kate Bush
“Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.” KnowsFirstsShowsWonderSawsComedyOriginalsMy FavoriteInsaneAll TimeSubversiveEdgy Author:Eric Andre
“Here's what I wish people wouldn't ask me: "Who are your influences?" That's a boring question. It's not even like, "What's it like to be a woman in comedy?" That question also happens often in interviews, but I at least understand where it's coming from. "Who are your influences" - I wonder if people ask that of male comics? Maybe they do.” PeopleIfsHappensAsksWishWonderComedyInfluenceMalesBoringAsk MeInterviews Author:Cameron Esposito