A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it’s the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the – the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.
But honestly, much of the work that I have done has had some impact on me. It’s something that I have realised only later. I also find it amusing that the memories of actors are so consciously constructed around what happened to that piece of work, in terms of audience reception or box-office results.
Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a lot of slapstick and really appeals to us. I guess we are just lucky that other adults find that amusing, too.
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
People shouting abuse has happened for a very long time, and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.
A lot of opinions just really don’t get to me. If anything, some of them were humorous and my favorite, you know – I’m Keith ‘One Time’ Thurman. I’m Keith ‘Run Time’ Thurman, Keith ‘Sometime’ Thurman, Keith ‘Once Upon a Time’ Thurman. That was pretty amusing.
I’m amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.
I’ve been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I’m just another slightly amusing accountant.
Life’s more amusing than we thought.
The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.
I’m useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone’s nerves, including my own. I’m not very good at amusing myself.
I think it was ‘Tales of Topographic Oceans’ on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing.
Paul Ryan’s love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.
I guess there’s a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that’s because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that’s poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
The amusing thing about ‘X-Force’ is that it was highly rated – and hated – in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one’s feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn’t have been doing our jobs right.
Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the ‘Today’ programme. I can talk about the day’s news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.
I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.
I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand – an acoustic guitar, and that’s all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s harmonies using the guitar.
Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn’t have the depth of something that’s dramatic. I don’t think that’s true.
I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I’m like, ‘Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?’
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they’re bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he’s not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he’s completely that way.
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