Back Quote by Christopher Guest

Comedians who aren't screenwriters are telling jokes that they themselves think are funny. They're expressing their own view of what they think funny is.

— Craig Mazin

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of…

— James Burrows

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

— Roger Ebert

You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke.…

— Fede Alvarez

As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny.…

— Ed Helms

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

— Matt Haig

A lot of the comedians don't even tell the joke. Like only three tell the joke, the rest of them dissect it.

— Bob Saget

Even the best comedians aren't always sure what is going to be funny, what is going to work. So that means they're constantly and…

— Phoebe Robinson

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully…

— Alexander Payne

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

— James Lipton

What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in…

— Colin Quinn

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

— Michael Showalter