#comedy

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy. ↗

— Jay Roach

#comedy #commentary #commentator #criticism #disk

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comedy #did #feel #finish #happier

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#allowing #comedy #folk #freedom #glorious

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#because #comedy #game #i #me

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism. ↗

— Ang Lee

#comedy #cynicism #i #looking #making

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#comedy #comics #executive #executive producer #got

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#comedian #comedy #father #figure #funny

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#comedy #cry #difficult #easier #i

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#back #bit #brings #comedy #doing

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#because #cannot #comedy #drama #i