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Mel Brooks

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."

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Donna Grant

"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."

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Donna Grant

"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."

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Donna Grant

"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."

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Donna Grant

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

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Mel Brooks
"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."

Country

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Mel Brooks
"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes."

Mistake

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Mel Brooks
"Humor is just another defense against the universe."

Humor

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Mel Brooks
"We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody."

People

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Mel Brooks
"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."

Writer

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Mel Brooks
"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."

Death

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Mel Brooks
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

Comedy

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Mel Brooks
"If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets."

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Mel Brooks
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."

Life

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Mel Brooks
"We rest our case on the production numbers."

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