Josh Gondelman Quotes
My comedy isn't clean; it's just friendly. So I get asked to do a lot of clean shows. It's like, 'Oh, I have a clean vibe, but I say gross, weird stuff.' It's just, it's very gentle the way I say it. It's not upsetting or jarring to people, because I'm not very aggressive.

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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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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'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
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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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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
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Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
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For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
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Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.
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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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Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
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I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
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You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'
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A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.
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I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.
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A lot of the stuff that I've done has been more drama and less comedy. I've had some opportunities to do some comedy, and I've often wanted to do that because it fits with me very comfortably because I talk too much, and I'm always saying the wrong thing all the time.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.
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My comedy isn't clean; it's just friendly. So I get asked to do a lot of clean shows. It's like, 'Oh, I have a clean vibe, but I say gross, weird stuff.' It's just, it's very gentle the way I say it. It's not upsetting or jarring to people, because I'm not very aggressive.