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Comedy Quotes
"I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!"
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"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
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"The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy."
11
"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."
10
"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."
10
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
10
"I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented."
9
"All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie."
8
"I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view."
8
"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
7
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
7
"Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable."
7
"Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing."
6
"Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice."
6
"The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have."
6
"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer."
5
"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."
5
"I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing."
5
"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
5
"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."
5
"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."
5
"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."
5
"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."
5
"I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy."
5
"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
5
"If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration."
5
"I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy."
5
"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
5
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
4
"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."
4
"I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real."
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