Colin Mochrie Quotes

In comedy, it's so subjective; there is no right or wrong.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

For comedy, timing is key.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

To me, comedy is a game.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Funny is funny.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

Funny is funny is funny.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

My only rule about a joke is that it should be funny.

The best comedy not only makes you laugh, but on the moment of the laugh, you learned.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

Comedians play off of social commentary.