Richard Lewis Quotes

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

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

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

I love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.

To me, the best comedians are the ones that take everyday, normal, boring stuff that no one thinks is funny, and they make it funny. That's the same style I go for.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.