It’s certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends. – Casey Wilson
I’m a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I’d like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films. – Illeana Douglas
The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy. – Bob Newhart
25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene. – Bob Saget
And you can’t hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit. – Jennifer Garner
People are meant to be certain places, and I think I’m meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy. – Bob Newhart
Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I’ve always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave. – Casey Wilson
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It’s a precision science in a way. – Colin Firth
I want to educate people and deliver news that isn’t just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I’d like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy. – Chelsea Handler
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that’s really what The Aristocrats is based on – what will a family do out of desperation. – Bob Saget
The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you’re just breaking in and that’s working, and that’s – you’re one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there. – Bob Newhart
When I played Imunique on ‘Love That Girl,’ that was on the other side of comedy – loud and out there. – Bresha Webb
I’ve never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The nature of comedy is ‘just do it.’ But I think what’s interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it’s just saying what’s wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it. – Bob Saget
A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it’s also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. – Alexander Payne
With comedy, don’t try to be funny. That’s really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters, and try to make it as real as possible. It will come out funny. – Ariel Winter
I’ve seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn’t understand their comedy or their sensibility. – Carol Leifer
There’s got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place. – Aries Spears
First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is… whatever. I don’t care about that. – Adam McKay
With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn’t want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite. – Bill Pullman