Josh Gondelman Quotes
I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.
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'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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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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I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
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I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
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I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.
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I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
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The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.
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I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.
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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
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Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.
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I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.
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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
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I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity.
