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In the fidelity of quiet reflection, we brew ideas as rich as a moonlit autumn night, crystallized fears flattened under fallen whispers.
Author:
Evelyn Marshall
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Within the skip of a child and the curious gaze of explorative hearts, playful wisdom resides--salted with errors yet cultivated in laughter, it's learning intertwined with joy.
Author:
Isla Thorne
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Behind every fable tidily wound through labyrinths of laughter, there's an artisan painting murky truths while galloping under the moon.
Author:
Elara Bryson
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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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Laughter does not age; it rewinds, refuges, celebrates, and regenerally constructs into the vintage concepts long-neglected or into irreverent sparks for the absurd dangers ahead.
Author:
Alessandra Designon
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Humor evolves like an ascending staircase; each generation adds a new step crafted from the jest and aches of its predecessors.
Author:
Olivia Ramos
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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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The melodies of laughter swing differently through generational cycles, creating an unending symphony that rhythmically tethers tradition to subversion.
Author:
Aurora Zielinski
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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 across generations serves as a bridge connecting wisdom with levity, nurturing conversations that challenge boundaries while honoring their roots.
Author:
Clara honorsky
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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 dances, evolving with each step in a tempo blending trials and triumphs of both past cheeks and future gleams.
Author:
Alice Carrington
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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 like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.
Author:
Pia Zadora
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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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It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
Author:
Norman Wisdom
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I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
Author:
Rainn Wilson
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
Author:
Owen Wilson
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Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.
Author:
Luke Wilson
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
Author:
Robin Williams
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People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
Author:
Kenneth Williams
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I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.
Author:
Esther Williams
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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'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
Author:
Gene Wilder
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I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.
Author:
Dianne Wiest
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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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That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said "But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously," and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.
Author:
Joss Whedon
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I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
Author:
Max Weinberg
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Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.
Author:
Chris Wedge
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I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
Author:
Paul Watzlawick
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
Author:
Naomi Watts
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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
Author:
Wendy Wasserstein
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Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
Author:
Burt Ward
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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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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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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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Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.
Author:
Johnny Vegas
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I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.
Author:
Jim Varney
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
Author:
Aisha Tyler
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It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
Author:
Chris Tucker
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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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My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.
Author:
Carrot Top
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
Author:
James Thurber
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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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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
Author:
Twyla Tharp
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My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.
Author:
Christine Taylor
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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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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Author:
Wanda Sykes
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
Author:
Wanda Sykes
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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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If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
Author:
Nicole Sullivan
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The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
Author:
Janet Street-Porter
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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 grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
Author:
Ben 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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When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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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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When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
Author:
Terry Southern
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
Author:
Barry Sonnenfeld
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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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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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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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My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
Author:
Pauly Shore
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Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.
Author:
Harry Shearer
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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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Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
Author:
Amanda Seyfried
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I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.
Author:
Sean Scott
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Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
Author:
Izabella Scorupco
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I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended.
Author:
Rick Schroder
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When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'
Author:
Susan Sarandon
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The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
Author:
Pete Sampras
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25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
Author:
Bob Saget
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Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.
Author:
Bob Saget
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The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.
Author:
Bob Saget
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Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.
Author:
Bob Saget
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I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.
Author:
Bob Saget
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But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.
Author:
Mark Rylance
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Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.
Author:
Meg Ryan
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If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
Author:
Richard Russo
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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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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.
Author:
Tim Roth
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It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.
Author:
Stephen Root
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If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.
Author:
Ray Romano
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Embrace your uniqueness and watch the world adapt to your authenticity.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.
Author:
Mo Rocca
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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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Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type 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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Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
Author:
Buddy Rice
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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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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.
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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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
Author:
Harold Ramis
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The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.
Author:
Harold Ramis
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Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
Author:
Gilda Radner
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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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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
Author:
J. Priestley
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Author:
Dawn Powell
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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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I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.
Author:
Parker Posey
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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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Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
Author:
Austin Peck
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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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A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
Author:
Alexander Payne
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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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It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.
Author:
Trey Parker
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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
Author:
Sara Paretsky
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I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.
Author:
Brian Palma
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I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
Author:
Patton Oswalt
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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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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 was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.
Author:
Graham Norton
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And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.
Author:
Denis Norden
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The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.
Author:
Denis Norden
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When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
Author:
Robert Niro
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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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I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!
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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Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
Author:
Mike Myers
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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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Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.
Author:
Eric Morecambe
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The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.
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Mary Moore
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You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.
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Julianne Moore
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Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.
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Julianne Moore
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My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.
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Ron Moody
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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
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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.
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Eugenio Montale
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Moliere
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Moliere
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Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
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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.
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Kel Mitchell
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Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.
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Kel Mitchell
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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.
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Dennis Miller
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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.
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Ismail Merchant
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I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.
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Matthew McGrory
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If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
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Roger McGough
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Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
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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.
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Kevin McDonald
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I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.
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Bruce McCulloch
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I don't really like comedy.
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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.
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Bruce McCulloch
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Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.
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Bruce McCulloch
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Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.
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Melissa Maur
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I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.
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Jessie Matthews
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With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.
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Tim Matheson
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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
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Steve Martin
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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
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Steve Martin
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There's always been physical suffering in comedy.
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Don Martin
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Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
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Marc Maron
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Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
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Cheech Marin
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Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
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Paul Lynde
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I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
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Matt Lucas
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When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.
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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.
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Josh Lucas
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Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
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Ernst Lubitsch
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I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
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Courtney Love
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Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.
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Mario Lopez
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It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
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John Lithgow
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What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
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John Lithgow
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A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.
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Jerry Lewis
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In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.
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Eugene Levy
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Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
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Barry Levinson
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Ted Levine
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Good comedy is ageless.
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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.
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Thomas Lennon
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
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Vivien Leigh
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It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.
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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.
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Matt LeBlanc
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And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.
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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.
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Matt LeBlanc
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Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.
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Nicholas Lea
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Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
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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.
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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.
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Robert Klein
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You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.
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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.
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Klaus Kinski
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I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
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Ben Kingsley
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Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
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Ben Kingsley
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But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Ben Kingsley
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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.
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Val Kilmer
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Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
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Val Kilmer
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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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.
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Moira Kelly
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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Garrison Keillor
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I think people are always looking for a good comedy.
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Catherine Keener
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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.
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Stacy Keach
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I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.
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Casey Kasum
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I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.
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Kato Kaelin
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I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.
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Davy Jones
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Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
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Chuck Jones
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
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Chuck Jones
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Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
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Chuck Jones
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Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
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Dwayne Johnson
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If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.
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Dwayne Johnson
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I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
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Norman Jewison
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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.
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Louise Jameson
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You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
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Brion James
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I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.
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Jason Isaacs
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To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.
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Eric Idle
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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
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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.
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Salma Hayek
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I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.
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Noah Hathaway
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Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.
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Colleen Haskell
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It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
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Tony Hancock
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Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.
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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.
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Steve Guttenberg
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You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.
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Paul Guilfoyle
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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
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Val Guest
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
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John Guare
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I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
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Kathy Griffin
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I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.
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Ryan Gosling
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I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
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John Goodman
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Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.
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Sharon Gless
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Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.
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Sharon Gless
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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.
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Sharon Gless
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In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.
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Sarah Gellar
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I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.
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Ana Gasteyer
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And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
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Jennifer Garner
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I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
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Neil Gaiman
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
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Christopher Fry
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In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
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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.
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Dawn French
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I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.
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Brendan Fraser
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Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.
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Al Franken
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
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Al Franken
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First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
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Milos Forman
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Faith Ford
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My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.
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Faith Ford
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Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
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Dave Foley
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Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
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Dario Fo
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With comedy I can search for the profound.
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Dario Fo
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Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
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Colin Firth
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I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.
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Linda Fiorentino
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When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.
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Albert Finney
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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Sally Field
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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.
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Will Ferrell
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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.
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Will Ferrell
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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.
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Will Ferrell
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Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.
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Will Ferrell
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In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
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Chow Fat
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In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.
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Bobby Farrelly
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We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.
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Bobby Farrelly
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I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.
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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.
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Jamie Farr
