History Quotes / ComedyGhetto

-->-- '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Gwenn Edmund]] [[http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/10/26/comedy-is-hard Gwenn]]'''

->''"I've never been tempted to do the part where I cry or [[OscarBait get AIDS or save some people from a concentration camp]] [[TrueArtIsAngsty just to get good reviews]]. I genuinely believe that comedy acting, light comedy acting, is as hard as, if not harder than serious acting, and it genuinely doesn’t bother me that all the prizes and the good reviews automatically by knee-jerk reaction go to the deepest, darkest, most serious performances and parts. It makes me laugh.''

->'''"It’s so weird. One of the things that Rick ''[Berman]'' and I agreed on all the time was Rick would read these comedic episodes and he’d say, 'This is great. This is so funny. It’s so funny on the page, but [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously they’re not going to play it]], are they?'"''
-->--'''[[http://www.startrek.com/article/ira-steven-behr-remembers-ds9-previews-alphas-part-1 Ira Stephen Behr]]''', co-producer of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''

->''"I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'FAIL', and that's when nobody laughs."''
-->--'''Creator/StevenMoffat'''

->''"Lots of people say comedy is a low-brow form of art, claiming comedy has no valid place alongside serious art forms. Comedy appeals to funny bones instead of brains, these detractors assert, and it takes far less talent (if any) to repeat jokes than it does to deliver a serious, dramatic soliloquy. And just throwing in some jokes about social topics or recent events is actually worse, so these arguments go, because it's a shallow, simplistic attempt to put lipstick on a pig -- it's still comedy, they say, and you're just trying to dress it up as something "relevant" in order to feel less self-conscious about the lack of artistry or value in it.

-->--'''Robert Mckee'', ''Literature/{{Story}}''

-->--'''{{Robert McKee}}''', ''Literature/{{Story}}''

-> ''Everyone knows comedy is the lowest form of entertainment, next to animation.''
--> -- '''[[TheFairlyOddParents Trixie Tang]]''', [[HypocriticalHumor animated comedy character]].

-->--'''{{Robert McKee}}'''

--> -- The Ultimate Disney.com [[http://www.dvdizzy.com/alvinandthechipmunks-chipwrecked.html review]] of ''Chipwrecked''

-->--'''[=~Robert McKee~=]'''

-->--'''Robert [=McKee=]'''

-->''Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say "I've got cancer" and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?''
--> '''P.J. O'Rouke''', ''All The Trouble In The World''.