Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.' ”

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything. ”

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was? ”

I feel like network didn't want me. I was doing all these pilots, and it never worked out. I was like, network doesn't like me. I'm going to go to cable where I'm appreciated. Then it was funny; I think I had to go to cable for network to appreciate me. ”

Writing comedy is a superpower. ”

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones. ”

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh. ”

I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it. ”

Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that can cross those lines of drama and comedy so seamlessly as Amy Ryan. ”

What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh. ”