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I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, Oh, that guy. I want people to start saying, Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.
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Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.
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We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.
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I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.
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It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.
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The Producers is my favorite movie, and my favorite performances of all time are Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and I feel like I strive to be a combination of those two guys.
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I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the past, and they're always just trying different styles.
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There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to change a line you've got to talk to the writer.
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I like being strange. I like being hyperbolic and surreal.
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A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather than thinking, 'Oh, wait - doing what they do normally is really hard.
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I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.
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I have Janicza solely to thank for my growth as an actor because she saw in me something that other people just weren't seeing, and she knew that I could go beyond the normal, funny 'make-em-ups' that I was doing on an improv stage.
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Jason Woliner and I have been longtime friends and collaborators.
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Nobody wants to see a woman on screen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.
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Gilbert Gottfried, I think, is just the most underappreciated comedian in the world. I think that he doesn't get enough credit for how funny he is.
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I love Seinfeld. That was not alternative. You can't get more in mainstream than that.
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Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has to come from the character.
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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
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I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.
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I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
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I think some people watch Raging Bull, or they watch The Piano Teacher, and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.
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I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.
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As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.
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A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.
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