Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

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.

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

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

I'm like a sight gag.

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

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

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

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.

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.

Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

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.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

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.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

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.

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I like really stupid comedies.

When you don't have a laugh track, you can make the clothes funny. We can make a sign funny. We can make the way somebody walks funny. The makeup can be funny.