Pastoral Resources

I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

I got everybody on my side through comedy.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.