Skylar Astin Quotes

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

There's an art to comedy.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

For comedy, timing is key.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

There's depth in my comedy.

Nothing can help my comedy.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

Comedy has to be built carefully.