Robert Webb Quotes

There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.

Robert Webb

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• Seventies

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• You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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  • Live
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Carl Reiner
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• I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Love
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• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
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• My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Soul
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  • Myself

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

• 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.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Life
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• 'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created 'Bunk.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Game
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• You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Comedy

• My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Comedy
  • Pain

• Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Women
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• To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Comedy
  • Explore

• I always had a tremendous amount of rage about the business, and I thought turning that into comedy was healthy.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Business
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• I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if I'm paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see who's funniest, with everyone treated equally.

  

  Doug Stanhope
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Comedy

• I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

  

  Jessie Cave
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.

  

  Loni Love
  • People
  • Up
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• I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.

  

  Loni Love
  • Comedy
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• Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • People
  • Work
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• Others may dispute this, we have tried to keep that sense of experimentation and putting new people up alive. And we haven't become a show, where we're like, "We know the 20 comics who are good and we're just going to keep on recycling them."

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • People
  • Alive
  • Experimentation

• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• I have successfully dealt with my dependence and my chronic pain issues. I ask that my privacy and that of my family be respected on this health issue.

  

  Jim Irsay
  • Family
  • Health
  • Pain

• So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.

  

  Cornelius Nepos
  • Life
  • Home

• There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.

  

  Robert Webb
  • Comedy
  • Terrible
  • Seventies