Comedy Quotes
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I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.
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T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.
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The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.
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Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
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I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
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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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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
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A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
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We couldn't live without comedy.
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All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
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Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
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I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
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I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.
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Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.
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A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.
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You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.
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A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
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I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.
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Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
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Of all the awards, the Stand-up Comic Audience Award is our favorite. It is a chance to honor the performers who spend much of their careers developing their craft and working in the comedy clubs all over America.
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I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.
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Do it stand-up comedy because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.
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Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"
