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Carl Reiner

"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

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"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

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Brennan Manning

"Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous."

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Brennan Manning

"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."

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Brennan Manning

"Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee."Who's Bruce Lee?"Who's Bruce Lee? Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore."Why? Was he a friend of yours?"You know what, he says, "just stop. Just-I can't even talk to you right now."

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Brennan Manning

"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."

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Brennan Manning

"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."

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Brennan Manning

"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."

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Brennan Manning

"He's called you, like, four times in the past week. And seriously, you should be embarrassed. I've never met anyone who has as much phone sex as you two. My eyes narrowed on her. "How do you know about the phone sex? "Duh. I pick up the phone and listen. I gaped at her."

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Brennan Manning

"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

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Brennan Manning

"Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it."

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Brennan Manning

"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."

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Carl Reiner
"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

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Carl Reiner
"Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh."

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Carl Reiner
"If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game."

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Carl Reiner
"The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh."

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Carl Reiner
"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."

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Carl Reiner
"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."

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Carl Reiner
"I'm a charming coward; I fight with words."

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Carl Reiner
"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it."

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