It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
'Monk' planted the seed that a procedural could have character and be quirky and have comedy.
Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.
I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.
The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.
'Greg the Bunny,' the comedy television show that I co-created, happened almost by accident. Dan Milano, Spencer Chinoy and myself made a public access show that caught the eye of IFC, and it has had three incarnations since then with a season on Fox.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.
Comedy is often a short career because you get to a point where you are no longer a small thing punching up at targets; you are the big thing, and it's hard to write from that position.
Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.
You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.
Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.
I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.
I'm a huge sketch comedy fan, and I think my love of sketch is reflected in my stand-up in that I do a lot of vignettes and voices and characters.
I drink Peet's Coffee, and they're a very authentic company. They don't try to be something that they're not, and I think that's reflective in my comedy as well.
