"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."

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"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."

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"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."

"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."

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

"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."

"Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes."

"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."

"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."

"I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way."

"My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy."

"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."

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"As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them."

"Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of."

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"I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her."

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"I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man."

"I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish."