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Our laughter anchors us to tradition and dares us to redefine, as each generation morphs punchlines into portals that bridge what was believed and what will come.
Author:
Eliana Sagewood
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In the whirlwind of faces and views, generational humor becomes the music blending contrasting rhythms--a vibrant testament that laughter is a language adapting and cheered by both pis conventions and trending beat
Author:
Mira Costello
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Every generation wields humor as a lens shaped by its unique experiences; what makes one age sigh often brings a guffaw from another.
Author:
Jordan Whittaker
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Generational humor represents an errors-and-expectations dance where experience ensures clarity, while innocence delivers irony.
Author:
Amara Seton
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Generational humor flourishes in the awkward impasse between memory and meme, letting us laugh through the experiment of common experience focused on temporality.
Author:
Zara Filmore
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Generational humor is a symphony of shifting tempos; what resonates in childhood tends to soft-pitch through decimals of anticipation in parenthood.
Author:
Amelia Carver
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Humor throughout generations acts as a mirror reflecting shifting values and struggles, revealing not just what makes us laugh, but how we connect across the ever-widening gap of experience.
Author:
Avery Johnson
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Generational humor acts as a lens through which we not only find laughter but also discern cultural shifts, revealing the nuances that separate our stages yet ultimately weave our collective narrative together.
Author:
Clover Judd
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Humor acts as the bridge connecting generations, allowing us to laugh through dates, grief, and missed texts; it's not just a tool of jest, but a vibrant tapestry that reshows our family's pride and transparency.
Author:
Amelia Foster
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Generational humor is a kaleidoscope; one crisp punchline to you may resemble enigma on the womb--the sides colliding yet enslaved to the communal grin.
Author:
Kyra Studebaker
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Humor flows like the river by which despite its age, it carves fresh branches--finding laughter lurking in the delta of experience and optimism unrepared.
Author:
Emory Valentino
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Generational humor serves as both a time capsule of current culture and a mirror reflecting societal fissures; when the laughter fades, you'll find the equity vibrations beneath wild chuckles big enough to reveal our political wounds.
Author:
Samuel Hertford
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Creativity is intelligence having fun, so embrace the chaos and let your ideas run wild!
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Success is often just unrecognized failure wearing a disguise of perseverance.
Author:
Alex Morgan
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Success is like a trampoline; you dive headfirst but the only way up is by bouncing back with enthusiasm!
Author:
Roy Sanders
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Success is like a cactus; you might need shade and skill to steer away from getting pricked!
Author:
Maya Thompson
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In a world where you can be anything, be kind and kill them with sarcasm
Author:
Jami Smith
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You will never be anything but authentic...unless you are in Witness Protection
Author:
Tracy Morgan
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Fear is the lock and laughter is the key.
Author:
Stella Rodriguez
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Embrace your uniqueness, for in a world of copies, authenticity is your greatest strength.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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Cherish your uniqueness, for in a world of conformity, it is a rare and precious gift.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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Embrace the beauty of being imperfectly authentic in a world that craves conformity.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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Embrace your uniqueness, for in a world of imitation, authenticity shines the brightest.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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You don't need to fit in when you were born to stand out.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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Dare to be fiercely and authentically yourself, for in the light of your uniqueness, lies the power to inspire others to do the same.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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Embrace the imperfect beauty of your unique story, for it is in authenticity that true liberation is found.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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Embrace the beauty in your uniqueness, for when you shine as your true self, the world cannot help but be illuminated by your authenticity.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
Author:
Jerry Zucker
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I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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Dying is easy; comedy is hard.
Author:
Donald Wolfit
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Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.
Author:
Fred Willard
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I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.
Author:
Bradley Whitford
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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
Author:
Wendy Wasserstein
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I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
Author:
Julie Walters
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The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.
Author:
David Walliams
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Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
Author:
Aisha Tyler
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I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.
Author:
Jeanne Tripplehorn
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
Author:
James Thurber
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
Author:
James Thurber
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It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.
Author:
Alan Thicke
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I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.
Author:
Jeffrey Tambor
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Author:
Wislawa Szymborska
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
Author:
Wanda Sykes
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I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.
Author:
Susan Sullivan
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We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
Author:
Matt Stone
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Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
Author:
Jerry Stiller
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I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.
Author:
David Steinberg
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Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.
Author:
Aries Spears
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There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.
Author:
Aries Spears
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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.
Author:
Sinbad
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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
Author:
Garry Shandling
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Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
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I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.
Author:
Richard Russo
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Embrace your uniqueness and watch the world adapt to your authenticity.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.
Author:
Mo Rocca
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My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
Author:
Jay Roach
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I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
Author:
Natasha Richardson
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I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
Author:
Carl Reiner
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I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.
Author:
Paul Putner
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With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
Author:
Bill Pullman
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The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Author:
Dawn Powell
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Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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There is a universality to comedy.
Author:
Simon Pegg
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I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.
Author:
Austin Peck
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Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.
Author:
Trey Parker
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Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
Author:
Maureen O'Hara
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I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.
Author:
Leslie Nielsen
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The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.
Author:
Leslie Nielsen
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
Author:
V. Naipaul
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
Author:
Cillian Murphy
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If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
Author:
Robert Moses
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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
Author:
Rick Moody
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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
Author:
Warren Mitchell
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We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them.
Author:
Kel Mitchell
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This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.
Author:
Ismail Merchant
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Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director.
Author:
Kevin McDonald
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I don't really like comedy.
Author:
Bruce McCulloch
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I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.
Author:
Bruce McCulloch
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There's always been physical suffering in comedy.
Author:
Don Martin
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Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
Author:
Paul Lynde
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When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.
Author:
Matt Lucas
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Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
Author:
Josh Lucas
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Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
Author:
Ernst Lubitsch
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What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
Author:
John Lithgow
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Good comedy is ageless.
Author:
Ted Levine
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There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.
Author:
Thomas Lennon
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It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.
Author:
John Leeson
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In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.
Author:
Matt LeBlanc
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Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
Author:
Matt LeBlanc
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Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.
Author:
Nicholas Lea
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Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
Author:
Lisa Kudrow
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I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.
Author:
John Krasinski
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And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
Author:
Robert Klein
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You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.
Author:
Joe Klein
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About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.
Author:
Klaus Kinski
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
Author:
Val Kilmer
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
Author:
Walter Kerr
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I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.
Author:
Moira Kelly
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I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.
Author:
Stacy Keach
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I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.
Author:
Davy Jones
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It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.
Author:
Louise Jameson
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You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
Author:
Brion James
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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
Author:
Salma Hayek
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Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.
Author:
Steve Guttenberg
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It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
Author:
Steve Guttenberg
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
Author:
John Guare
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I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
Author:
John Goodman
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You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
Author:
Sharon Gless
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And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
Author:
Jennifer Garner
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In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
Author:
Christopher Fry
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The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
Author:
Dawn French
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Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.
Author:
Al Franken
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
Author:
Faith Ford
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Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
Author:
Dave Foley
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Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
Author:
Dario Fo
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With comedy I can search for the profound.
Author:
Dario Fo
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I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.
Author:
Linda Fiorentino
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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.
Author:
Will Ferrell
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I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.
Author:
Jamie Farr
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If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.
Author:
Jamie Farr
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There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.
Author:
Robert Evans
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I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
Author:
Kevin Eubanks
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I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.
Author:
Mike Epps
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I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.
Author:
Robert Englund
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Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.
Author:
David Ellis
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You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.
Author:
Hector Elizondo
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I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.
Author:
Hector Elizondo
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Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?
Author:
Jenna Elfman
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It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.
Author:
Jenna Elfman
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In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.
Author:
Jenna Elfman
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I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
Author:
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
Author:
Adrian Edmondson
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Most modern comedy is crap.
Author:
Adrian Edmondson
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
Author:
Aaron Eckhart
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
Author:
Aaron Eckhart
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I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
Author:
Charles Dutton
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I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.
Author:
Stephen Dorff
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
Author:
Larry David
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I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.
Author:
Bobby Darin
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When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.
Author:
Jim Dale
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I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.
Author:
Arlene Dahl
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To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
Author:
Nikki Cox
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I get all of my comedy from CNN.
Author:
Rob Corddry
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
Author:
Kate Clinton
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The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.
Author:
Dominic Chianese
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Author:
Charlie Chaplin
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Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.
Author:
Brian Celio
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
Author:
Dick Cavett
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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.
Author:
Dick Cavett
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Author:
Michael Caine
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I got everybody on my side through comedy.
Author:
Ruth Buzzi
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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!
Author:
Sophia Bush
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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
Author:
Carter Burwell
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I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.
Author:
Steve Burton
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The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.
Author:
Timothy Bottoms
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To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Author:
Elayne Boosler
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Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.
Author:
Jason Biggs
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It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
Author:
Corbin Bernsen
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We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.
Author:
Jill Bennett
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Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Author:
Ludwig Beethoven
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You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.
Author:
Alan Bates
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A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.
Author:
Jason Bateman
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I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.
Author:
Todd Barry
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I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.
Author:
Todd Barry
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I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.
Author:
Todd Barry
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Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It's a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons.
Author:
Todd Barry
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There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.
Author:
Todd Barry
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It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
Author:
Christine Baranski
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There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
Author:
George Baker
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
Author:
Rowan Atkinson
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It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.
Author:
Will Arnett
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At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.
Author:
Desi Arnaz
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Author:
Aaron Allston
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Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
Author:
Woody Allen
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Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.
Author:
Don Adams
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You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?
Author:
Bud Abbott
