Judge Reinhold Quotes

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

I think mockumentaries are such well-trodden grounds for comedies. It has been done a lot, but it is because of that informal nature, it's such a fertile ground to be funny.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

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.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

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

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

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

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

There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

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 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.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less winking that's going on when you're doing comedy - and this is just my own thing, and maybe it's why I've never been hired in comedy except by Bill Lawrence - but I think that the less winking you do with comedy, the better off you are.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.