Ben Edlund Quotes

It's really challenging to play comedy.

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

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 comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

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

People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

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.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

My comedy is different than a lot of people's.

There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.