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Todd Barry

"There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"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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Charlotte Eriksson

"Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy."

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Charlotte Eriksson

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

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Charlotte Eriksson

"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"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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Charlotte Eriksson

"I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."

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Todd Barry
"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."

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Todd Barry
"I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things."

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Todd Barry
"There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake."

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Todd Barry
"I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it."

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Todd Barry
"I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy."

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Todd Barry
"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."

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Todd Barry
"If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts."

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Todd Barry
"I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it."

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Todd Barry
"You always think you're better than you are in the beginning."

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Todd Barry
"It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me."

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