Jenna Elfman Quotes

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

I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

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.

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

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

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

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

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

I'm like a sight gag.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.