Comedy Quotes
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There's only one podcast subject that can give Donald Trump a run for his money when it comes to vulgarity, excess, and base comedy, and that's football.
David Hepworth
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'Ralph's Party' was a romantic comedy, and at the end of it, the two main characters, Ralph and Jen, kiss for the first time and think they're going to be happy together. Then, 10 years later, I wrote a sequel in which they've been together for 10 years and are about to split up.
Lisa Jewell
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare
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Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.
Marianne Williamson
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You can't do comedy with a beard.
Alexei Sayle
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I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.
Elijah Wood
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Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.
Aisha Tyler
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The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.
Joel McHale
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Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.
John Lithgow
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I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.
Brad Garrett
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Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
Josh Lucas
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I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.
Benjamin Bratt
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I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands.
Hal Blaine
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I'm focused on the work. And now I've done 'Morris' and 'Mr. Robot,' my appetite is whet to go deeper. It's fun, and it's challenging, and it stretches me. I'm not saying I'm done with comedy by any stretch of the imagination. I'm saying, yeah, let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Craig Robinson
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I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
Elizabeth Banks
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I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.
Brendan O'Carroll
