#comedy

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#skills #specific #takes #technique #very

I had wanted to do a comedy. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#had #i #wanted

I'm fascinated by comedy. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#fascinated #i

You can't do comedy with a beard. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#comedy #you

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#media #music #diet

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#anything #club #comedy #comedy club #created

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#fodder #great #hypocrisy

Boyfriend?” He was smiling slightly. Karl rolled his eyes. “Not if you’re going to be like that about it.” “What, happy?” Aiden teased. “You supposed to want your boyfriend to be happy, you know.” “I want you to be happy,” Karl muttered. “I just don’t want you to be a smug little bastard about it. ↗

— Jane Davitt

#romantic-comedy #change

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#funny #hard #line #music #rhythm

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#because #behind #comedy #craft #frank