Josh Gad Quotes

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.

When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

I enjoy doing physical comedy.

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

I learned physical comedy to a degree that most child actors never will. I really just became a student of it - became obsessed with it, to be quite honest.

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

Now a 'funnyman' can get a laugh before opening his mouth - looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen. Harry Langdon, Larry Semon; they were all funnymen - they looked funny. W.C. Fields was never a comedian. Slim Summerville was a comedian, yet looked funny. Now if you have both attributes, you are in good shape.

The thing with physical comedy is that you have to actually try to do the thing you're trying to do - you can't fake it.

I can be a bit movement-orientated and flamboyant because, essentially, I'm a physical comedian.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

A lot of my comedy is physical, so you don't have to understand English to get that I'm choking to death on cinnamon or falling out of this tree or whatever.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.

To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.