David Walton Quotes

I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

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 gravitate to ensemble comedy.

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

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.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.

Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny... There's no time for anything to develop.

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.

When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm like - 'I can't laugh that much. That's so weird to me.'

You can't just yell jokes at people.

Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.

The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

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

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.