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Jenna Elfman

"In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama."

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"In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama."

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"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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"I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?"

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Amber Hurdle

"As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight."

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

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

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

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"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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"Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story."

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"I got everybody on my side through comedy."

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"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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