Dick Van Dyke Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Girl, Needs, Golden

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 9, 2011.

• Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

  Dick Van Dyke

  First Love, Love Is, Dancing

• I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Play, Missing, Littles

• One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Crazy, Ocean, Book

• There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Comedy

  "90-year-old Disney Legend’s Secret To Marrying A (Much) Younger Woman". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com.sg. October 3, 2016.

• We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20 minutes. So I don't think they can really do a beginning, a middle, and an end anymore. There's an awful lot of one-line jokes; almost every line is a punchline. It's not the same, but there's still good comedy around.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Thinking, Lucky, Comedy

• I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Comedy, Impossible, Kind

• I did a guest shot on a comedy series where they did 20 to 30 takes of everything. It's just gone by then. The joke is over. It's not funny anymore, and then of course, the editor's the one that has to figure out the timing. I think a lot depends on that.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Thinking, Comedy, Timing

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