Douglas Wood Quotes

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

Akshay sir is very good at comedy. He has so much energy in him. He not only expresses with his dialogues but also his body. He is like Mr Bean.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

I think Carrot Top is hilarious.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Buster Keaton is my hero.

Chris Guest is the godfather of improvisational comedy.

I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.