Sammo Hung Quotes

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

My instincts are not comedic.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

Comedy has lost its eloquence.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

I never think I want to try to be funny. And humor, if there is anything funny, should come from a real place.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'

Our new programmes have always just been different vehicles for the same sort of comedy.

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

There is a universality to comedy.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.