Beats Quote by LeToya Luckett

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

— Julianne Moore

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting…

— Christine Baranski

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and…

— Jeff Baena

The point with me is that it's always been, even with the stand-up, that the music has to be right. You have to take…

— Bill Bailey

Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny…

— Mel Brooks

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

— Patton Oswalt

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits…

— John Cleese

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously…

— Stephen Fry

I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God,…

— David Mandel

The problem is that comedy is very tiring. It exhausts the hell out of me. Serious role is not tiring. Comedy is about jumping…

— Arshad Warsi

In comedy you have to be prepared and be specific and have a vision so your comedy feels organic and relatable and it's a…

— Sal Vulcano

It's most difficult to score a comedy. Where are the limits? When does music become gimmicky or stupidly funny?

— Alexandre Desplat