Comedy Quotes
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If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.
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Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot.
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'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.
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It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.
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Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
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It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
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You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.
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Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.
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In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
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Some fast food places, they have that ketchup pump. It's like a keg. They give you the paper shot glass. I always like to hang around there, try and meet the ladies. "Here, I'll pump for you. You come to this Wendy's often? My roommate and I, we got a pony pump back at my dorm. Here's an extra shot "
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I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.
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I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.
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With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
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Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.
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Life ain't a drama. And life isn't just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it's truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.
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If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.
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For comedy, timing is key.
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Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.
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'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.
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I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all. It's important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from creeping in.
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Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
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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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As a kid, I was always inspired by the comedy of Carol Burnett. I loved Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon's 'Mama's Family'.
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You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.
