Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny. ”

Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy. ”

All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the best comedy comes from, from stereotypes. ”

Mixing humor and politics is something that works. ”

It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water. ”

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption. ”

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice. ”

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time. ”

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard. ”

I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value. ”