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Amy Poehler

"Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live."

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"Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live."

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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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Amy Poehler
"Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live."

Comedy

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Amy Poehler
"Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something."

People

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Amy Poehler
"So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself."

People

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Amy Poehler
"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."

Art

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Amy Poehler
"In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?"

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Amy Poehler
"I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler."

Growing up

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Amy Poehler
"If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition."

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Amy Poehler
"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius."

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Amy Poehler
"I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves."

Men

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