Harold Ramis Quotes

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

'Wonder Showzen' is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that. It redefined what I thought you could do with a TV show.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.

I'm a fan of Louis C.K., I'm a fan of Lena Dunham. I love shows about people that other people would consider unlikable, or, like, the work of Woody Allen and Albert Brooks.

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

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

I guess that compared to other comic strips, I'm edgy. But put me along something like 'South Park,' and I'm 'Captain Kangaroo.'

It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

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

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible.

I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.

Comedy is my favorite genre. I think it often doesn't get the respect it deserves, and I think one of the reasons is there was a tradition in the past of comedy looking kind of brightly lit and like a sitcom.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

I want to do a comedy film.

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

We just thought of 'Boosh' as an extension of our childhoods in a way, the stuff we had grown up on and loved: 'Monty Python,' The Goodies, Frank Zappa. It spoke to a certain type of person, and we just carried on doing it.

I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found.

It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!

Horror comedy - very rare in Bollywood.