Ed Helms Quotes

I am obsessed with improv.

There's something very edgy about Bill Murray out there improvising.

The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

These actors like Danny McBride and Jonah Hill are so good at improvising, and when they do it, it's this fun moment for the audience. It makes them feel like they're watching something fresh and new.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.

Nothing can help my comedy.

I love improvisation.

I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.

With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

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

I'll always come back to comedy. Doing drama can feel satisfying, but day to day, it's just not as fun as laughing.

I'd like to do a bit of comedy.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

There weren't any funny people in sports or the Spanish club. All the really creative, witty, funny people that made your belly hurt were in the theater program.

Titles always sound so pretentious, and when I see a comedian, I just want the person to take flight, not stick to one topic or subject.

Because I do mostly comedy, I'm usually working with friends, and it's usually a ball.