You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come... →
Theodore Bikel
I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
Peter Billingsley
I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.
Mike Birbiglia
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance... →
The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.
Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.
I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.
Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!