Comedy Perspective Quotes

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially on the run. And so yeah, as I say, Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and this one got into the hands of Taika Watiti who then writing the screenplay decided to really vamp up if that's the word, or ramp up and modernize certain phrases - getting in the humor. So he added a lot of a real comedy perspective onto it which is what I think the story needed anyway, especially for it to turn into a film. And it worked.

I love 'Another Round.' It's Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton's podcast that's through BuzzFeed, and they're real funny and really themselves. And I like it because it's very funny, but it's outside the realm of comedians talking about comedy.

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.