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Quotes about comedy and comedians

  • Is there someone I look up to? Uh, yeah. Um. I look up to John Ritter, just because, I guess, he's a physical comedian. Um, and I enjoy that. (Walliams David)
  • I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy. (Walliams David)
  • At the base, it's about a man from America who doesn't quite fit in, with the comedy that entails. Everyone can relate to that, when things are lost in translation (Walliams David)
  • Who would have ever thought I would win in the comedy and musical category? (Walliams David)
  • But those sitcoms - they're stealing money. (Walliams David)
  • “Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.” (Walliams David)
  • Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth. (Walliams David)
  • I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all. (Walliams David)
  • “I think all comedy has victims, really, ... Even if it's not a victim that appears on camera, usually there's a victim. If it's political comedy, if you're talking about the president or whoever, there's a victim there.” (Walliams David)
  • I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon. (Walliams David)
  • “The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.” (Walliams David)
  • “You know, the better scripts I've seen lately have been comedy scripts.” (Walliams David)
  • “kind of like a traveling comedy circus.” (Walliams David)
  • It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET. (Walliams David)
  • Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy. (Walliams David)
  • “I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.” (Walliams David)
  • “I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.” (Walliams David)
  • “All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.” (Walliams David)
  • “A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.” (Walliams David)
  • “I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.” (Walliams David)
  • “I'd done a couple of sitcoms earlier on, but I wasn't very good in them, so I thought that meant I couldn't act.” (Walliams David)
  • “I think people are always looking for a good comedy.” (Walliams David)
  • “Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will start reasserting themselves.” (Walliams David)
  • I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up. (Walliams David)
  • I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles. (Walliams David)
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