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Comedy Quotes
"I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area."
18
"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
18
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
17
"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."
17
"I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan."
17
"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."
16
"Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas."
16
"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."
16
"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
16
"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
16
"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."
16
"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
16
"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."
15
"I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material."
15
"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."
15
"A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs."
14
"When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy."
14
"Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?"
14
"There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that."
14
"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."
14
"I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year."
14
"Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd."
14
"Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama."
14
"You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out."
14
"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."
13
"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."
13
"I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy."
13
"Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do."
13
"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
13
"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"
13
"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
13
"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer."
12
"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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