You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

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

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.