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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!"
18
"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
15
"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."
12
"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."
12
"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."
11
"I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view."
11
"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 would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
7
"Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful."
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
"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."
7
"Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice."
7
"Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable."
7
"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer."
6
"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."
6
"I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy."
6
"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
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'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy."
6
"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
6
"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
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
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
"If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television."
5
"I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real."
5
"There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience."
5
"Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy."
5
"You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy."
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."
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