Daniel J. Goor Quotes

What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.

My stand-up act is very clean.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.

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

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

'Yamla Pagla Deewana' is not slapstick but a situation based comedy.

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

My humor was Victorian - and still is.

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

All of my favorite comedy has always been of the grounded variety. Even 'MacGruber.' I think that MacGruber is a really grounded character.

I gravitate to ensemble comedy.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

If you like a conversational style of comedy, if you like comedy that's a little dangerous, I'm your guy.

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

We're delighted that Freddie Flintstone and his friends have made such a hit. The comedy is not the old cartoon slapstick. Most of it is situation stuff and dialogue.

My favorite movies were 'Singin' in the Rain' and stuff that had a more classic comedy type feel, that more slapsticky stuff. It's the comedy I've gravitated towards.

Not Going Out's jokes were based on the American mentality in terms of how often the jokes appear.

I like to weed out the people who aren't going to enjoy me straight off the bat. If you look at all my specials, I do start more extreme and then, as I get into it, sort of at the three-quarter mark, I normally have a bit of pathos. Is pathos the right word?

I always wanted to do a light-hearted entertainer, and 'Bruce Lee' is such a film. The brother-sister sentiment and the relationship between father and son will be very good. The comedy will be hilarious, but it is not a forced comedy.

Things like 'The Office,' and arguably shows like 'The Only Way Is Essex,' are comedies, just using real people in real situations.

Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."

Maybe in 10 years,I'll only be doing "classical" comedy. Or crashing my car into trees.