I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. – Ben Kingsley
I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it’s kind of the best of both worlds. It’s like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over. – Alan Ruck
I came out to L.A. in ’78 to be a musician. I didn’t get into comedy until the mid-Eighties. – Andy Kindler
I am actually talking about possibly adapting ‘The Boys,’ by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it. – Adam McKay
I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant ’cause you don’t know why it’s funny, but you captured it. – Alice Lowe
A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard. – Adam Sandler
I didn’t want to write sketch comedy after ‘Mr. Show.’ I felt like, after ‘Mr. Show’, why would you want to go work at any of the other places that existed then? – Brian Posehn
What’s interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there’s a straight man, and then there’s the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they’re both the funny guy. – Christopher Guest
When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that’s all audiences would watch. – Burnie Burns
The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don’t enjoy the echo. I’m no sell out. Literally. – Andy Kindler
I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon. – Amanda Bynes
I just finished ‘Butter’ for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast – Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone – all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I’ve gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. ‘Butter’ is about butter carving in Iowa. – Ashley Greene
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She’s a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy. – Barry Humphries
You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and once you sell out clubs you’re into theaters. I’ve been able to get there, and it’s cool to do that. – Bill Burr
I’ve done some version of that Minnesota accent – that Midwestern accent – in sketch comedy for years. It’s the quickest way to symbolize you’re a mom. – Allison Tolman
One of my favorite comedy performances of all time is Charles Grodin in ‘Midnight Run,’ and in a lot of things he’s done. I think he’s hilarious as the straight man, playing it real. – Andy Daly
I’ve never heard of a comedy that hasn’t had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy. – Bradley Cooper
I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments. – Bo Burnham
