I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people.
Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.
As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.
When you get started in comedy, you're at the bottom of the totem pole. Not only are you not getting paid at these open mics. You're actually paying to do them.
Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it's slow.
Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.
I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
'50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.
In comedy, if you don't have the right tuning with your co-actor, the humour can fall flat.
I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.
Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.
I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.
Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.
People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.
The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
