Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

Denver has smart and energetic crowds that appreciate good comedy and don't take themselves too seriously. ”

Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter. ”

We've all seen comedians look like they're reaching just a little bit too much for the laugh. This is counterproductive. The conceit of standup is that it is effortless, which makes the prospect of generating new comedy a tricky one: you are trying to be funny without looking like you are trying to be funny. ”

Trying to be funny is arguably the least funny thing you can do. ”

When you spend your day writing comedy, particularly with others, the discussion of jokes and how far to push things with a group of unoffendable colleagues means that your grasp of what is acceptable in normal conversation is often skewed. ”

My family is all obsessed with comedy. I grew up watching a lot of comedy in the house. I used to watch Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy with my dad. But my mom is more into slapstick stuff. ”

You can be good at comedy, which means you'll be given spots, but beyond that it is luck that pushes you to the next level. There are loads of brilliant comedians who haven't had the breaks, and plenty of average comedians who have. ”

There is a magical, unexplainable phenomenon that still occurs to this day where, however funny you think the material you've written is, as soon as you turn up to a gig to try it out, it becomes almost incoherent. ”

When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy. ”

Teaching is so solid and reliable, comedy is not. ”