Ellie Taylor Quotes

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

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.

I wanted to be a comedian.

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

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.'

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.

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.

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.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

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

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

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.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.