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

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.