Drew Carey Quotes

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

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.

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.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

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

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

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.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

There is a universality to comedy.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

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

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

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.

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.

I'm like a sight gag.

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

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