Sherilyn Fenn Quotes

You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.

Everyone told me that British sitcom was dead. Then I looked at 'Seinfeld' and 'Frasier' and thought, 'No it's not, it just needs more gags.'

When I came out to Hollywood in 1985, I thought that I would be sitcom star. I'm a tall, skinny, goofy guy. I thought that I would make a great funny neighbor, or wacky office mate, in a sitcom.

I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

That's the easiest job you can have in TV comedy, being the guy who just delivers the funny.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.

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

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.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

I really love 'Real Housewives.' It's like the, you know, comedy stuff that's, like, intentionally funny. Like, I love 'Nathan for You,' that Comedy Central show. It's just brilliant. My friend Bill Eichner has a show called 'Billy on the Street' that I write for, and even if I didn't write for it, I'd still love it.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.