Sight Gags Quotes

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.

Our comedy is just falling over, funny faces, arguments, all the comedy basics, really.

When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.

Sight gags had to be planned; they required timing and mechanics. Occasionally, spontaneity would arise in the shooting of the scenes.

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

I enjoy doing physical comedy.

I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes.

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

We became very good in developing comical sight gags when we made 'The Flintstones.'

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

I learned physical comedy to a degree that most child actors never will. I really just became a student of it - became obsessed with it, to be quite honest.

I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.

I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.

But my comedy hero was Stephen Chow. His deadpan comedy, all the stuff he wrote like 'From Beijing with Love,' it's incredibly funny.

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.