Comedy Quotes
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Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.
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Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
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I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.
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Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.
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I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go
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Ive predominantly done comedy over the years.
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Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.
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A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.
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In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
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It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.
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The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.
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I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.
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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
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Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.
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There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.
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I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
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I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.
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My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.
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I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom.
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I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.
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Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.
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I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.
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I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace.
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I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.
