Jason Katims Quotes

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

I'm like a sight gag.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

Comedy is a weird thing.