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"I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real."
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"You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out."
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"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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"Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy."
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"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
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"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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"There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake."
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"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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"I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage."
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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'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy."
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"If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you."
Deep
"If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it."
Passion
"In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression."
Impression
"I'm here today because I hated everything else."
Today
"Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do."
Impression
"It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes."
First
"Men don't hear women."
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"Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal."
People
"But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking."
Men
"Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it."
Being
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