Comedy Quotes
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Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.
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The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
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One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.
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As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.
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There's a thing in comedy where you take one step into a bad idea, but if you take 10, then it becomes a good idea again.
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The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.
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When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.
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Comedy is second nature for me.
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My comedy is romanticized laziness.
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I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
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I still make videos in my bedroom by choice because that's the feel of my comedy, but the opportunity to make longer format content with a production company, with a team that's a bit more elevated in that sense, is really exciting for me because it's not that it's better than what I've already been doing, but it's different.
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It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.
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I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.
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From 1987 to 1992, I was on the road for 40 weeks a year playing comedy clubs, and that was during the 'comedy boom.'
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If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.
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There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.
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There are a lot of action movies with very little comedy.
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You have to be so honest in comedy.
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Listen, here's my questions to anybody when they talk about comedy. When you are with your friends who don't judge you, what do you say? And if that's appropriate to say with your friends, why is it not appropriate anywhere else. Like I hate those people who judge me and are hypocrites.
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I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.
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For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.
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Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.
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When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
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There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We figured it was time to make it available to people who have never watched it.
