Chunky Pandey Quotes

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Comedy is all about the pause.

Comedy has to be built carefully.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

Humor is the hardest thing to do. Action is so much easier, because you're just trying to establish the mood, and a pacing, and a rhythm, and an energy. Where, in humor, comedy is so subjective.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

For comedy, timing is key.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

It's very hard to write humor.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

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

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.