Jill Davis Quotes

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

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

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

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

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

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.

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

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

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.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

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

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

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.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

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

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.