I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
Michael Ian Black
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar
When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.
Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue... →
Nicolas Cage
You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other... →
Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.
Tim Cahill
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
Michael Caine
Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers... →
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.
Bryan Callen