The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.
I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.
I don't often watch broad comedies and think, "Oh well, I could have been a part of that. " It's usually the opposite. I usually watch them, enjoy them, admire them, and think, "You know, I really have nothing to contribute to that".
When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.
I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.
Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.
Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.
I never get tired of looking at her [Catherine Keener] and it always surprises me, despite how many hours of film I've shot on that face. She's fantastic. She does comedy and tragedy so equally well. She wears her feeling so on the surface for both. I try to stop myself from casting her but I just keep coming back to her. She's just so fantastic to work with.
It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
I like very dry humor. I dont like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.