Negin Farsad Quotes
What makes comedy so effective is that if you’re making them laugh along the way, they’re going to listen to the deeper cut stuff.
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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.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
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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.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
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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.
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I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.
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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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For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.
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If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.
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I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.
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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.
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I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
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So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
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But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.
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I love leather. I'm very much a leather jacket, leather trousers kind of girl.
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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.
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Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.
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What makes comedy so effective is that if you’re making them laugh along the way, they’re going to listen to the deeper cut stuff.
