I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we’re in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things. – Brian K. Vaughan
I remember seeing ‘Spinal Tap’ at a young age and being like, ‘That’s how you perform comedy.’ – Bill Hader
I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is ‘Archer’ and’ Frisky Dingo.’ – Amber Nash
You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it’s death. – Buddy Hackett
Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don’t want to bully people, and I don’t want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say. – Bo Burnham
I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer. – Chiwetel Ejiofor
I’m doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They’re faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they’re funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing. – Brian Posehn
It’s dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous. – Christopher Guest
You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think ‘The Guard’ had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying. – Brendan Gleeson
I don’t like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I’m not a prude, but… I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I’m constantly asking myself, ‘Why have we gone there?’ It seems like it’s unfortunate. It’s so cheap. It’s so easy. – Brian Lamb
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. – Bryant H. McGill
I was trying to be a clinical psychologist for years. But I kept getting stuck in comedy. – Amy Hoggart
I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying. – Casey Kasem
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding. – Christopher Walken
I really like comedy because it is really fun to be in – even though you are playing it straight. – Ashley Thomas
I get frustrated by the fact that comics go on stage with some kind of agenda beyond comedy – I’m not sure it should be about that. – Andrew Lawrence
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. – Cheech Marin
I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It’s very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it’s the only way most do it. – Allison Jones
I’ve always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby – more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics – Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle – you get to see them a bunch, and you go, ‘Wow, this is where I need to be.’ – Al Madrigal
For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form. – Bo Burnham
I was in something called ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ which was a real cult comedy; it’s sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it’s kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes. – Alice Lowe
