Steve Coogan Quotes

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

I'm very interested in any script that makes me laugh.

There's a joke that I do where I make fun of myself for being bow-legged, and I compare myself to a camel and how a camel walks and sits, and that has become a joke that people - when I deliver that joke, people are in tears.

Everyone knows the feeling where you're in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It's awesome, you feel like you rock. That's what comedians want with a bit of extra ego.

The thing with the comedian is you can make all the jokes you want and not every joke it going to be a winner, and not every joke is going to land, there'll be some that somebody doesn't laugh at, but that's just part of the deal.

I was once doing a gig with Tim Vine; he was backstage, and there was one of those long strings of polystyrene coffee cups. He picked up the whole stack of about 20, walked on stage and then said: 'Bloody hell this coffee's hot!' which I think is the funniest thing anyone has ever said.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.