It is utterly asinine that people continually go to comedy shows without bothering to see if their sensibilities line up with the comedians.
I enjoy doing these silly little videos, and a lot of stuff online is stuff I actually created for my live comedy shows.
In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.
All comedy shows make me feel better about everything.
It's like cooks don't watch cooking programmes - I suppose maybe comedians don't watch comedy shows.
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
I'm not a comedy guy. I don't do comedy shows.
In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen.
I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.
I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.
What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group.
A great horror film works as a communal experience more than almost anything else, except for maybe a comedy. That's something that I've experienced, just taking this movie around and watching it with audiences.
I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.
I think comedy is incredibly discriminated against. It is one of the most enjoyed yet most condescended art forms in the world. It's the same thing with hip-hop.
Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.
In general, even when I'm not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say the most offensive things.
For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.
I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.
Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.
I remember watching 'Abbott and Costello vs Frankenstein' continuously as a kid and being amazed that my horror legends were making a comedy.