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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's depth in my comedy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love mustaches with all my heart. There's just something about sketch comedy and mustaches.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
- Nov 07, 2020
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've a belt that I have worn for every single stand-up comedy session since I was 19. I fear if I ever lose it, my career would crumble. That's my one OCD.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy comes from confusion.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, even when I'm not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say the most offensive things.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There’s a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn’t fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.
- Idol
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is saving me.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than an adult comedy, 'Great Grand Masti' is a naughty horror comedy, more on the lines of 'Masti.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
- Nights
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very happy working in 'Comedy Nights' with Kapil.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love doing comedy shows.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy can be fun no matter what you're playing. It always has the potential to be a blast.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.
- Costello
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember watching 'Abbott and Costello vs Frankenstein' continuously as a kid and being amazed that my horror legends were making a comedy.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always felt that the rise of what became known as alternative comedy was born out of the loins of the alternative theatre movement.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy doing these silly little videos, and a lot of stuff online is stuff I actually created for my live comedy shows.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love musical comedy; I love comedy in general, and I have varied taste in terms of books, film, theatre, and culture.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a television broadcasting student in 1993 up in Ottawa, Canada, and my friends and I started making a show, I consciously set out to apply comedy to technology. I started tomgreen.com back in 1994, and we weren't able to put video on there yet, but we were aware that that was coming.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am desperate to do a comedy now.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked a lot in comedy. As much as I love playing dramatic roles, it's always nice to be able to have some humor around when working.
- Godfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chris Guest is the godfather of improvisational comedy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.
- Burnett
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020