I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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Related I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic... MATT DILLON I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I gue... JARED PADALECKI I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious. CARMEN ELECTRA I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy. ZACH CREGGER I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn o... JENNY ECLAIR I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for thre... STEVEN WRIGHT I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting... NATALIE ZEA I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn... ELISHA CUTHBERT Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing. BELINDA STEWART-WILSON I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge. TED LEVINE Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, b... BOB SAGET I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater studen... AASIF MANDVI I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less win... MICHAEL MOSLEY I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never co... LISA LAMPANELLI I can't tell if I want to be a rapper who's funny because I kind of enjoy just doing really ... AWKWAFINA I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And peop... BAR PALY I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's s... JASON REITMAN I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to ... ADAM DEVINE I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or drama... MIREILLE ENOS I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha... INGE DE BRUIJN I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face. EDDIE MARSAN You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work ... ZACHARY KNIGHTON I'm always drawn towards the darker stuff, because I think it's just a lot more interesting.... IWAN RHEON Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror ... JOHN LANDIS I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d... DAVE ATTELL Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do. DAVID R. ELLIS I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came... JOHN C. REILLY There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for com... CILLIAN MURPHY It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, ... ADAM ARKIN I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's q... KATHERINE RYAN It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actu... RICHARD DAWKINS I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-of... CHELSEA PERETTI I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a wai... BRUCE MCCULLOCH I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is w... MAGGIE SMITH Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think sh... DAVID SUTCLIFFE I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy ... CAYDEN BOYD To be honest with you, the dramatic side is more fun to play because I don't get to do it as oft... ERICA ASH Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other wome... AMANDA TAPPING It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.... RACHAEL HARRIS My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. ADAM SANDLER I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get thr... JAMES L. BROOKS It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy. CORBIN BERNSEN I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am a... DARREN BOYD When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way ... BRUCE MCGILL When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, ... ALAN RUCK 'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy a... JONAH HILL If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher. DAVE CHAPPELLE I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare ... BO BURNHAM I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. A... CHRIS PRATT It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satiris... TREY PARKER I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but i... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, film... RANDY WAYNE If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I've always been a fan of comedy. I've always enjoyed it. It's something I'm very pa... ROB RIGGLE The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There... STEPHEN COLBERT A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before ... JAY PHAROAH I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. ... JUDAH FRIEDLANDER I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going ho... CHRIS EIGEMAN I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd don... JESSALYN GILSIG I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, b... BRIAN COX I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the ... ALAN RUCK I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real... EVAN PETERS I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't... CARL REINER I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful e... RICHARD C. ARMITAGE When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when... HANNIBAL BURESS I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And ... GENE WILDER I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always ... DICK CAVETT Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to see... NATALIE ZEA I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof o... KATHY GRIFFIN Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are abo... SHARON GLESS Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's... HIROYUKI SANADA A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anyb... STAN LAUREL I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy. ASHTON KUTCHER I'm focused on the work. And now I've done 'Morris' and 'Mr. Robot,' my appe... CRAIG ROBINSON I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have ... DREAMA WALKER It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career... CALVIN JOHNSON I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time. DEIRDRE O'KANE I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of... DAN HARMON I like all kinds of comedy. I like comedy that doesn't talk about real beliefs or serious though... MARIA BAMFORD People who don't know that I do comedy think I'm shy, kind of a dud, and I don't have th... MARTHA KELLY '50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcic... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of suppo... MICHAEL IAN BLACK I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've... TATIANA MASLANY I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there... DARREN BOYD I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple... NATALIE ZEA I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that i... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing ... STEVE MARTIN There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good c... ELLEN PAGE I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I&... DANNY DEVITO I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu... ALAN BENNETT I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet.... ROSE LESLIE I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've prob... FAMKE JANSSEN I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not ... BILL COSBY I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about... KEVIN HART I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My f... GINNIFER GOODWIN I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of roman... RACHEL HURD-WOOD I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to ge... RAY BOLGER
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