Eric Andre Quotes

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

I'm very interested in any script that makes me laugh.

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

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

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

For comedy, timing is key.

You know, funny can be universal.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

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

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.

There is a universality to comedy.

I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.