Who would have ever thought I would win in the comedy and musical category
Who would have ever thought I would win in the comedy and musical category
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
Sitting with him, they wanted to do network, they wanted to do syndication, ... I've got to get that 'Ben Stein' time period back on Comedy Central. It supported a game show that was intelligent and smart.
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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.
Equally unexpected was the comedy writing Emmy that went to Jim Valley and show creator Mitchell Hurwitz for an episode of Arrested Development. ... We'd be remiss if we didn't point out that you've twice rewarded us for something people won't watch.
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
To do my show, I'm always in every scene and it's very physical comedy, and even to motivate to want to work at all when I'm off is very challenging.
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.
It had a 'Moonstruck' quality to the comedy - very romantic, huge emotions. I like to think of it as a comic opera, ... It just posed this question, what is true love Is it that sort of ecstatic, over-the-top feeling you get on meeting someone Or is it about years of commitment and history together Or is it both How do you find it, and how do you know It's a very complicated topic.
In the '60s, I started acting on these little video machines with my friends. We started a comedy workshop called Channel One in the Village.
We were trying to make a movie that was funny, but also trying to be smart about being funny. We just wanted to make people laugh,. If you want to make a comedy you just don't want to hit people in the groin for two hours, even though that's really funny too. We wanted our jokes to have a little weight to them.
We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
Nobody is as innocent as they used to be. You can't work in a world of wish fulfillment. This is an adult family comedy. You have to have some honesty and edge to be successful. We're reflecting existing behavior, not encouraging it.
I think (Mamet) seduces people in the first act into thinking that it's a comedy, in a sense, ... But then it turns around and becomes very dangerous. He's created a language here that appears to be natural but is much more heightened. It's realism in the best sense.
My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
I first met Queen when we worked together on Saturday Night Live and you just saw immediately that she got comedy. Immediately she got every joke.
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.
I'd be thinking, short term, people want comedy, but who's to say where the public's mindset will be a few years from now. In the Cold War people couldn't get enough science fiction.
For me, it really first has to be a good story and be funny. If you're doing sincere comedy, the edgy stuff kind of happens on its own.
I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
Beloved King of Comedy.
But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.
I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.
I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
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