"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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"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

Jim Dale, British Musician

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"About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie."

Klaus Kinski, German Actor

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"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."

Aries Spears, American Actor

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"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."

Desi Arnaz, American Actor

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"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."

Larry David, American Actor

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"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."

Leonard Maltin, American Critic

Comedy, Disguise

"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."

Jeanne Tripplehorn, American Actress

Comedy, Television

"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."

Aries Spears, American Actor

Comedy,

"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."

Hector Elizondo, American Actor

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"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."

Desi Arnaz, American Actor

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"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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"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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"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

"About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie."

"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."

"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."

"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."

"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."

"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."

"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."

"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."

"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."