Comedy Skill Quotes

In comedy you feel you need to go back to the theatre every now and again, you feel you need to go back to an audience every now and again to see if you're still getting your craft right, making people laugh at the moments you think they should and that sort of thing.

I have a lot of respect for actors who do comedy. They do it naturally.

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

It is not necessary to have a good sense of humour personally to do comedy well.

Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that can cross those lines of drama and comedy so seamlessly as Amy Ryan.

I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

There are many comics around who don't really have a feel for comedy. They can say outrageous things, have clever thoughts, and deliver some funny angles. But they are not genuinely funny.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community.'

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.

I think stand-up's, the older they get, the better they get.

There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.

I think people who can do comedy well don't get enough credit. It can be harder than drama.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

I can make the best fart noises. I can make, like, 10 different sounds at different levels.

My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

I'm not a fan of stand-up comedy, personally. But some of them are incredibly skilled.

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.