George Pierce Baker Quotes

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

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.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

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

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.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

I like really stupid comedies.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

I like idiotic comedies.

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

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

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

Humor is reason gone mad.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

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