Javed Jaffrey Quotes

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense of humor.

I want to do a comedy film.

It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!

Comedy is not an easy genre.

Comedy can be a lot more fun if you try something unique.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

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

I think comedy has to be very fearless, or it just gets bland.

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

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

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 is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

'Naked Gun 33 1/3' I think made me laugh more than anything ever made.