David Brin Quotes

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

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.

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'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found.

It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so interwoven. I've always been a sucker for that.

I want people to watch us and think, 'They're idiots. They're clowns,' I want them to watch us and think Tommy Cooper or Spike Milligan.

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.

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

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

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 think Carrot Top is hilarious.

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.