Norm Crosby Quotes

I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace.

Comedy has changed with the times, thank God - slowly, oh my lord, slowly - but it has.

Our new programmes have always just been different vehicles for the same sort of comedy.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

My instincts are not comedic.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

Obviously comedic styles do change.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

The more real it is, the funnier it is. The more awkward it is, the more people are stumbly, the funnier it is. I like a sharp joke, but it has to say something that someone would actually say.

I never think I want to try to be funny. And humor, if there is anything funny, should come from a real place.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

For comedy action, I must know the language.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

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.'