Awkwardness Quote by Mike Birbiglia Download Open image “Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.” — Mike Birbiglia ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awkwardness Comedy Feelings Humor
Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the stuff that interests me. I don't necessarily think that comedy comes from a dark place, like you have to be a strung-out heroin addict. But I don't think it comes from happiness, that's for sure. It… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share
I think comedy is where I feel very silly, confident, and really can't expose too much of my sensitive side. — Melissa Villasenor Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it. — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke. — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls.… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out. — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking to each… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a… — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
