When I knew I wanted to write a novel that would be a twist on a conventional romantic comedy, I re-watched 'When Harry Met Sally,' as well as the other two films in the indomitable Ephron trifecta - 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'You've Got Mail.'
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.
When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so interwoven. I've always been a sucker for that.
There doesn't seem to be a relationship between budget and comedy. In fact, it might be inverse.
Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this tongue-in-cheek sense of comedy.
My very first job was something called 'Nobody's Watching,' that Bill Lawrence who created 'Scrubs,' it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, I've been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.
I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.
My favorite actors are Jim Carrey and Chris Farley, Tom Hanks, Robin Williams. Robin Williams is the best - to be able to do all that comedy but also be heartbreaking.
I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.
It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.
Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.
