Joe Flaherty Quotes

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

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

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

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 would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

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.

People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too.

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.'

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.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

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.

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

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.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

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.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

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