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.
It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.
A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.
The only way to get a serious message across is through comedy
I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.
I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
It takes a lot of energy to be funny. . . for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.
The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.
Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies.
Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.
That's what's nice about being on Comedy Central. You can't show your boobs even if you wanted to.
I do feel I'm kind of a magnet for crazy, and if there isn't enough crazy, I will insert myself in a situation that I feel has comedy potential.
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.
I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer. . . But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.