Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.
There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.
I love Steven Wright.
I have an incredibly dry sense of humor.
When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.
In person, if possible, Anubis was even more drop-dead gorgeous. [Oh . . . ha, ha. I didn't catch the pun, but thank you, Carter. God of the dead, drop-dead gorgeous. Yes, hilarious. Now, may I continue?]
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
I try to play the stiff, as much as I can, and play it dry, which is sometimes hard for me. My problem with comedy is to want to clown it up, but she's the funny one. Those are her jokes, not mine. For me, it's a lot of not doing anything. I just don't want to muck it up.
My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.
I get paid to not laugh.
Paul Rudd has a very specific brand of humor.
I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.
My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question
You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced.
I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.
When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.
Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.
When you're wearing an animal costume and something bad happens, your facial expression doesn't change. The animal is deadpan the whole time. If you're skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion. It's just a stoic gorilla, wildly falling down a hill, out of control.
I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.
I have a very dry sense of humor.
When you're doing comedy, you're not trying to be funny. I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously. I think when people are winking, it becomes slapstick, it becomes something else.
If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.
