Comedic Interpretation Quotes

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

A lot of British comedy feels foreign rather than feeling universal.

That’s Narmer with the spoon,” I guessed. “Angry because the other bloke stole his breakfast cereal?

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

I love how much people are drawn to my 'impersonations' of Trump because they aren't really impersonations at all. I'm not trying to be Trump so much as I'm trying to make Trump me. In doing them, I simply ask myself, 'How would I, Sarah Cooper, say these words?'

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

When somebody mangles one of my jokes, that bothers me more than somebody saying that I'm the worst comedian ever.