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Jenna Elfman

"It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder."

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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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Jenna Elfman
"I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh."

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Jenna Elfman
"It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder."

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Jenna Elfman
"And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan."

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Jenna Elfman
"I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always."

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Jenna Elfman
"Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence."

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Jenna Elfman
"I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!"

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Jenna Elfman
"And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing."

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Jenna Elfman
"There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing."

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Jenna Elfman
"Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic."

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Jenna Elfman
"It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing."

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