Rupert Holmes Quotes

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

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

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

Humor is reason gone mad.

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.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I like really stupid comedies.