Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy. ”

There's something very funny about giving a menial task to a genius and watching him find so much complexity and overanalyse it to such a degree that the waitress from Nebraska working at the Cheesecake Factory has passed them all by. ”

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way. ”

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting. ”

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended. ”

I love shifting between being super cute and aggressive. It's funny. ”

People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy. ”

I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs. ”

Before I started on 'Borgen', people introduced me to some great American box-sets to convince me that TV could be good. I now watch them all the time. Amy Poehler is very funny in 'Parks and Recreation' and 'In Treatment,' with Gabriel Byrne, is also really good. ”

Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure. ”