There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up is a more intimate thing than ….
I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy..
A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world..
I love drama - I would say more than I even love comedy - but I like in One Mississippi that I can go from a very moving moment to a Willy Wonka tube….
With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast..
Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way tha….
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight..
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography..
There's a lot of people out there who didn't like my style of comedy..
Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself..
I'm a huge fan of the people and things that are considered the epitomes of tastelessness - things like drag and raunchy comedy..
What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes..
I like grown up comedy..
I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized..
Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing something,….
America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously..
I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that..
Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did..
Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy..
If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic..
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death..