Comedy Understanding Quotes

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.

People look at me and go, 'He's only successful because he's got a bunch of 16-year-old girls at his back who don't understand comedy.' Well, they do. In any case, no one hates me more than I do; no one's more self-conscious about that than I am.

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

Comedy is a weird thing. You have to understand, it's the weirdest thing you can do. There's no consensus. It's not like... People say, "I saw Saving Private Ryan, and that scene on the beach is just so moving." I can't imagine anyone who would say "I don't find that moving!" But you can show, whether it's Laurel & Hardy or the Three Stooges or Jiminy Glick In Lalawood, some people are going to look at it and say "That's the funniest thing I've ever seen." Some people will say "I don't get it." Who's right, who's wrong?

People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.

People used to make fun of alternative comedy because sometimes it would be someone being funny, and sometimes it was a crazy man with a flute making no sense. And it's very easy to be like, yeah, that's not really comedy.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

People don't get my sense of humour.

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.