The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast comedic actors to play dramatic roles because, really, there’s no such thing. There’s just actors.
They didn’t really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.
I have admiration for people who can do it well – the guys who wrote ‘Cheers’ and ‘Frasier.’ They created sort of a blissful comedic universe.
I enjoy comedic things. People don’t understand it’s the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
I grew up on Abdul Halim Hafez and Esmail Yassine, a great comedic actor. I think Adel Imam also changed and revolutionised the game and comedy in Egypt.
A lot of the comedic work Ive done has been over-the-top, sketchy stuff.
Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he’s a genius.
Obviously, when you do something with drama and comedy in it – and by that, I mean a scene that has drama and comedy in it – you know the minute you introduce music, you’re either scoring the drama or you’re scoring the comedy, and therefore the scene becomes either dramatic or comedic.
I’m not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I’ve been asked to improvise.
It’s so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.
Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She’s got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.
There’s a bit of hazing when it comes to the youth performers and a disbelief that you’re capable of handling dramatic or comedic material on an adult level.
I always wanted to be a comedic actor – that’s what I wanted from the job – to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I’d love to be an old guy who can’t really walk, can’t really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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 don’t want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything that’s a lead.
As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan.
‘The Choirboys’ is very much a product of its mid-1970s time, especially in its two-dimensional portrayals of cop groupies Ora Lee and Carolina Moon, but the energy of Wambaugh’s newfound, blackly comedic voice is a revelation, a trap-door opening into all facets of a policeman’s world.
As an actor, it’s crucial you keep your ears open, especially when you’re playing opposite comedic legends in almost every scene.
Any comedic roles that I’ve gone out for usually end up going to a white woman or a gay man instead.
With comedic news, it’s about having a point of view. If you don’t have that, you don’t have a show.
When the protagonist breaks the fourth wall by looking at the camera in a movie, it’s generally been used for comedic purposes, rather than feeling like they’re looking into your soul.
Our job as directors is to really give the audience a sense that all this exists in a universe somewhere. Even if it’s a slightly more stylized or comedic world than we live in, it’s still really important that it has an authenticity and integrity to it.
I think I’m ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.
With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
With comedy, it’s a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good – it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily… that would also be the result if you sucked.
But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.
Rhythm and timing are so important in comedic acting.
Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that’s where he got his character ‘the tramp’ from. It’s a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.
I’ve always done theater. I’ve never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. ‘Anchorman’ kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in ‘Anchorman,’ I didn’t know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, ‘What’s happening?’
My first acting lessons were Shakespeare. The first time I ever started working with a coach was doing scenes from ‘Measure for Measure,’ which were tough dramatic scenes. And then ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ which required comedic timing. And that’s the kind of stuff I love.
I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.
When I started auditioning, I’d take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn’t go as well as the comedic.
Each of the ‘Toy Story’s are telling an emotional story, but they’re comedic. They’re so successful creatively in terms of the stories they’re telling. And they’re pretty grounded.
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren’t necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.
I’m looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I’m not dark, not compared with ‘Saw’ or anything like that. So I’m looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones – ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.
After ‘Wedding Crashers’ I was just surprised as to the lack of comedic female material there is. So I had to start working and getting stuff out there for myself.
I’ve always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they’re just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
I love gritty dramas, ‘Queen Sugar,’ ‘True Detective’ – stuff like that, but I also love quippy comedies – those multi-cam comedies with incredibly talented and funny casts with perfect comedic timing.
People haven’t seen me in a comedic setting, but that’s who I really am.
I was in several school performances, mainly Shakespeare and comedic roles. I just accidentally became an actor. I totally didn’t expect this.
You see a lot of comedic content that’s not funny, and you can tell that it’s supposed to be funny, but it’s actually not funny.
I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.
I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
Tonally, the stuff I want to do in VR will, of course, always have a comedic backbone and be a bit absurdist and colorful with really interesting and bizarre characters but supported by really strong gameplay mechanics.
My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They’re all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They’re just great actors.
I have comedic things in my stuff, but I don’t consider myself a comedian. I’m just a YouTuber, I guess just a personality.
Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.
I think the future belongs to the comedic polymath. It belongs to the person who can generate the most good material in the biggest variety of ways, whether it’s sketches or stand-up or songs or tweets or television or films.
I don’t think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.
I’ve always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.
If you’re doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can’t forget that it’s primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.
I enjoy doing standup, but when I’m 50, I don’t know if I’ll still enjoy doing standup. It might be one of those things where I find other palettes that I want to paint on and make comedic.
I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what’s comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it’s kind of comedic.
I’m not really good at character or plot development. I’m just interested in big comedic moments.
If the mean thing is being said with a person who abused malice, then something sounds mean. If something that is considered mean is being said by somebody who has good intentions and has maybe a comedic lack of awareness, then you can get away with a little bit more.
