Comedy Quotes
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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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Everybody that you can think of that does comedy, I have met or worked with almost all of them.
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
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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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I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
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Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.
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In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.
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I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.
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Comedy came early. I knew when I was a kid that I was silly, and I knew that I liked people who were funny, but I don't think I knew I was funny. I didn't really think about it.
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When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
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I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.
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That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.
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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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But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I always thought I was better at that.
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I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?
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I say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift.
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Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.
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There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.
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A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.
