"Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful."

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"Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful."

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Marcel Proust, French Author

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Carter Burwell, American Composer

Comedy, Horror, Romantic

"Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"He's called you, like, four times in the past week. And seriously, you should be embarrassed. I've never met anyone who has as much phone sex as you two. My eyes narrowed on her. "How do you know about the phone sex? "Duh. I pick up the phone and listen. I gaped at her."

Gena Showalter, American Novelist

Comedy, Humor, Privacy, Family, Absurdity

"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

Jim Dale, British Musician

Comedy, Singing, Songs

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Nikki Cox, American Actress

Comedy, Drama

"About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie."

Klaus Kinski, German Actor

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Aries Spears, American Actor

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"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."

Desi Arnaz, American Actor

Comedy, Jokes, Problems

"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."

Larry David, American Actor

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"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."

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"I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy."

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"Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing."

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

"I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy."

"Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous."

"He's called you, like, four times in the past week. And seriously, you should be embarrassed. I've never met anyone who has as much phone sex as you two. My eyes narrowed on her. "How do you know about the phone sex? "Duh. I pick up the phone and listen. I gaped at her."

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"To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy."

"About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie."

"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."

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