Unscripted Comedy Quotes

If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.

Sometimes improv doesn't work on TV because the audience had heard the thing that was shouted and they're very much alive, the audience in the room - they're alive in that moment. Whereas the audience sat at home on the sofa, it feels like it's part of a party that they haven't been invited to.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

What I love about improv so much is that we are all discovering it at roughly the same time. The performers are maybe, what, a half second ahead of the audience? There's very little lag time. I think of a thing, I say it, then the audience is laughing and it all happened in a second.

Macro humor is just a person being themselves in a situation, saying whatever they're going to say, and it's funny because of the situation and who they are, or they say something, and it's just so them.

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.

I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

We would not have 'America's Funniest Home Videos' without drunk brides and grooms falling into cakes.

I don't have any favourites, but I like situational comedies, not forced ones.