top of page
.png){kind=small}
"There is a universality to comedy."
Standard
Customized
More
"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."
Author Name
Personal Development
"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?"
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating."
Humor
"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
American
"Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act."
Act
"We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that."
Work
"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."
Fact
"There is a universality to comedy."
Comedy
"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."
Instinct
"We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up."
Life
"The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck."
Thought
"Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now."
Friendship
bottom of page