Your last letter made me laugh so much, Em, but you should still get out of there because while it's good for gags it's definitely bad for your soul. You can't throw years of your life away because it makes a funny anecdote.
Quotes about gags (11 Quotes)
He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him.
Since I was getting whacked with his hat every time I turned around, ... it's a good thing Alan Hale Jr. and I liked each other so much. He really was a gentle giant and made a big effort never to hurt me in any of the gags we did. Even the hammock gags, where he'd fall on me or vice versa, never injured either of us.
We didn't stick to any format. We would just get an idea, and once you started on the idea it would lend itself to gags and natural trouble of any kind. There was no format.
The first part of the story is very funny and very full of gags ... then the second part is not a comedy (and) is exactly a real tragedy. This, to me, was wonderful, the balance.
We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
Their lack of communication surprised me. I put my head down and was going to start to come back, but the puck was laying there. I just turned quick, and fortunately Gags was there.
is a kind of sad film -- it has a lot of funny stuff in it -- but I don't think of it as a comedy. ... The humor isn't a result of gags or big jokes, but small behavioral things people do.
Rebecca, much like Pepper, takes her job very seriously, but she doesn't take herself seriously. A lot of actors don't like to play the fool. They feel it weakens them in some way, but Rebecca gets power from it. So when bad things are happening to Pepper, or humiliating things are happening to Pepper, she rolls with it. And because she's able to throw herself in all the way, it makes the gags work.
Gags die, humor doesn't.
Without (the reality), it's just slamming into things. If you start with that physical comedy, then things surely but slowly fall apart. But you build on that reality and then you can go pretty outrageous - up to the Keaton-like gags.