Zach Braff Quotes

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I tend to like dry humor.

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.

I like very straight comedy.

Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.

I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

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

I like all kinds of comedy. I like comedy that doesn't talk about real beliefs or serious thoughts, but then I also like the stuff that does. I think it just depends. It's a completely personal choice.

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

I like an English sense of humor: dry, dirty, a little bit off. That's kind of my taste.

I've never really loved mean comedy.

I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

I like grown up comedy.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

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.