Quotes: Comedy

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That’s the greatest sketch comedy you’ll ever see on television.

Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same – dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits – the repetition through the ages is comedy.

I love a good laugh as well, I think that’s so important in life, which is probably why I’ve dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it’s the most special thing in the world.

I’m doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

I like that kind of ‘straight-faced’ comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.