Comedy Quotes
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My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.
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I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.
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I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
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Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.
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Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.
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Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.
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My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
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I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.
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We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a knock on Mr. Show at all, because it's my favorite comedy show of all time. Even before I worked on it. It's just really refreshing to write something so stupid and say, "We gotta do that."
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I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
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I moved from acting to stand-up because castings are just about what you look like. It doesn't matter if you can act or not. In comedy, no one cares what you look like.
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I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
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I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.
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Talking Heads were a big influence on my comedy. For David Byrne, every album had to be different. With 'Portlandia,' every season has to be different. You gotta reinvent the look, all of it.
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'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.
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The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
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Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.
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I want to work with Will Ferrell. I want to do, like, an action-comedy with him. How do I get the project for that? It's killing me. I've got all these great ideas, and the hardest thing is getting the material, the screenplay, you know.
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A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.
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Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
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I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
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He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".
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I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.
