Comedy Quotes
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I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.
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It's not hard to be a woman in comedy as long as you're also a writer. You have to create your opportunity.
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It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
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I used to impersonate people a lot when I was very young. But the good Lord gives us teachers to make fun of first. And then, of course, by college, I eventually graduated to a more sophisticated kind of comedy more people were familiar with.
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There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.
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There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.
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The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.
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I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.
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The government will pay certain farmers to not grow corn. Wow. Where's my check? That'd be great. "Hey, what do you do for a living?" "Well, I don't grow corn. Get up at the crack of noon, make sure there's no corn growing. I'm gonna get up early tomorrow. And not plow. You know, we used to not grow tomatoes-but there's more money in not growing corn."
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I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.
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'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.
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I came into the 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' TV show with a level of confidence that I don't think I would've had if I hadn't been doing the podcast for three years already. I certainly had to figure out in those three years the sense of humor I wanted to do and the way to talk to celebrities without being incredibly intimidated by them.
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.
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At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.
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I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender. I'm happy to go at anything that has a cause to be laughed at.
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My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
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In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.
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Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.
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I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.
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Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.
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Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
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I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.
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A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.
