Comedy Quotes
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I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.
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I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.
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If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.
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I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.
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I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.
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The ultimate objective of comedy is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you did not get a laugh, then you've kinda saved the moment. Other professions don't have that luxury. You don't want to hear a brain surgeon say, "Man, am I so stupid! I cut on the wrong side of your head!!"
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I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.
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As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.
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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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I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
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I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.
