Comedy Quotes
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If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.
Jean Smart
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
Bassem Youssef
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Dane Cook
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
Adam McKay
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
Adam Arkin
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
Paget Brewster
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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.
Jo Brand
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We have home videos that are really great tape on my parents being hysterical. So I think I always knew that my parents were funny, so I think that I always felt comfortable using comedy in my real life.
Briga Heelan
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Social media has definitely changed the game for me. I am able to connect to my fans on twitter and interact with them, daily. YouTube has been a game changer as well - people around the world have been exposed to my comedy through my YouTube channel.
Gabriel Iglesias
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I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
Mackenzie Davis
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Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.
Eddie McClintock
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A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.
Keegan-Michael Key
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady
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I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.
Laura Benanti
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As a director, just to be able to jump in to do something that's different, and to explore comedy and be challenged by that, is great. Some directors never get that opportunity.
David Leitch
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There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.
Hayden Schlossberg
