Comedic Sense Quotes

A comedy scene can't really have two weirdoes in it. It doesn't make any sense that way, so you need someone to ground it and call out what's unusual about this person and this scene. Early on, I got pretty good at doing that, and I felt pretty comfortable doing that.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

You can tell in six seconds if someone is funny.

My instincts are not comedic.

It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.'

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

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.

Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.

I never have been able to understand where the humor comes from.

When someone doesn't have a sense of humour, it kills me.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

I have no line. If I think it's funny, it's funny.

I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.

I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

she doesn’t really have a sense of humor. I think she’d like to have one—it’s just that she doesn’t quite understand what jokes are for.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.