"I don't want jokes. I want a motorcycle chase through Snapper Canal! I wanna see fools getting splatted in slow motion! I don't wanna hear Sheldon tell nerdy crab jokes in front of a laugh track!"
— Pearl, Splatoon 2
"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.
"Comedy is pure: If the audience laughs, it works; if it doesn't laugh, it doesn't work. End of discussion. That's why critics hate comedy; there's nothing to say."
—Robert Mckee, Story
And if you're in comedy filmmaking to begin with, artistic integrity is a relative value easy to disregard.
— The Ultimate Disney.com review
of Chipwrecked
of ChipwreckedI've never been tempted to do the part where I cry or get AIDS or save some people from a concentration camp 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.
"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.
"Such claims are of course empty, wrongheaded, and demonstrate a lack of serious thought about what art is, what makes it valuable, and — as is almost universally the case — a general lack of experience with the thing they're insulting. Comedy is rich and diverse. It is as hard to write, and is as relevant and necessary for a fully rounded, informed artistic experience, as any other form of art and entertainment."
"Such claims are of course empty, wrongheaded, and demonstrate a lack of serious thought about what art is, what makes it valuable, and — as is almost universally the case — a general lack of experience with the thing they're insulting. Comedy is rich and diverse. It is as hard to write, and is as relevant and necessary for a fully rounded, informed artistic experience, as any other form of art and entertainment."
—Film critic Mark Hughes, "What Bill Maher Doesn't Understand about Stan Lee or Comic Books." Forbes.
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