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"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
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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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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."
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"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."
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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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"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy."
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"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."
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"I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy."
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"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."
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"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off."
Comedy
"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times."
Audience
"If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike."
Health
"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people."
Work
"Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information."
Art
"I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail."
Business
"The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks."
Management
"The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in."
People
"People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time."
Time
"I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive."
People
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