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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.

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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.

  

  Barbara Park
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• When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • 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.

  

  Carl Reiner
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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.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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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.

  

  Barry Eisler
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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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• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Nice
  • Comedy
  • Moral

• Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Important
  • Think
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Comedy
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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.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Death
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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.'

  

  Ian Doescher
  • People
  • History
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• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Mind
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• There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• 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.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Comedy

• So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Interesting
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• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
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• I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Travel

• I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • War
  • Peace
  • Desire

• Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

  

  Tyne Daly
  • Choices

• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Government
  • Humanity
  • Human Rights

• 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.

  

  Negin Farsad
  • Comedy
  • Laugh
  • Effective