Being real Quote by Kevin Kline

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

— Paul Lynde

I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at…

— Harold Ramis

With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

— Kate Flannery

The mark of a really great satire is its ability to seem prophetic, and I think that the television culture that film predicted really…

— Justin Simien

Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge. How much…

— Craig Robinson

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the…

— Geoff Dyer

You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the audience to…

— Shawn Levy

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way…

— Jason Robert Brown

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to…

— Michael Pena

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable…

— Dave Rubin

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

— Dawn Powell