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"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
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"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."
"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."
"I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy."
"It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy."
"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."
"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."
"He's sort of a homeless horse, I said.'I'm leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I won't be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I don't want that horse in my apartment.'Who would put a horse in an apartment? That's dumb.'Where's the horse staying now?'My apartment.'I can always count on you to brighten my day, Ranger said. And he disconnected."
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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."
"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."
"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."
"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."
"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
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