#comedy

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all. ↗

— Steve Burton

#comedy shows #first #first of all #fun #i

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#comedy #dangerous #entering #land #start

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy. ↗

— Milos Forman

#believe #comedy #defend #doing #first

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#because #being #between #character #comedy

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#actor #because #becomes #bottom #bottom line

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#i #less #wanted #well-known

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#comedy #great #support #weapon #well

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment? ↗

— Famke Janssen

#body needs #boxed #comedy #drama #everybody

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#comedy #stringent #very

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#because #comedy #critic #dramatic #exacting