Josh Widdicombe Quotes

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.

It's just about being an entertainer; it's about having all those tools over the years to do all sorts: films, musicals, playing a bit of piano, running a quiz show - it just becomes part of the job.

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

My background is in improv and writing.

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

I've had a wonderful time in 'Foyle's War' and I don't mind being typecast. But I'm not prim. I'm chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I'd love to do a comedy next, or something modern.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.

I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

Either I'm in the studio creating something, or I'm on stage doing some stand-up somewhere... or I'm creating a parody video flexing my pecs.

I don't mind being the funny character rather than the glamorous one, although I'm happy to do both.

I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time.