Bill Hader Quotes

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

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

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

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

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.

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

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

Most modern comedy is crap.

I don't write punch lines.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

Comedy is a funny business, which you have to take seriously.

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and we all laugh. That's generally how, just mechanically - super-distilled - comedy works.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

It's very hard to write humor.

Comedy is second nature for me.

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.

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.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.