#comedy

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#funny #intending #laugh #make #somebody

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#comedy #finds #half-hour #itself #kind

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#class #comedy #into #played #sink

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#humanity-complexity #humor #mind #funny

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#drama #harder #i #people #than

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#broad #comedies #comedy #enjoy #grounded

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#absurdity #bad #bit #comedy #everything

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won! ↗

— Cheech Marin

#battle #comedy #did #first #gig

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it. ↗

— Cheech Marin

#compromise #doing #guy #hard #know

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do. ↗

— Marc Maron

#any #clown #comedy #matter #needs