David Jason Quotes

Comedy makes me soar, and comedy is very serious business.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

Nothing like a great comedy. I love to laugh!

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

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

I don't write punch lines.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

Comedy is my soft spot.

I always really loved comedy. It's the only thing I was ever good at.

I hate comedy. I don't even like comedy at all.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

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.

Comedy is second nature for me.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.