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Comedy Quotes
"You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out."
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"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."
25
"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."
25
"You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy."
25
"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
25
"Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside."
24
"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."
24
"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."
22
"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."
21
"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."
21
"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."
21
"I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan."
21
"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?"
21
"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."
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"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
21
"Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama."
21
"I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing."
20
"I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit."
20
"There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy."
20
"I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy."
20
"I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous."
20
"You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in."
20
"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."
19
"There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice."
19
"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."
19
"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play."
19
"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."
19
"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."
18
"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."
18
"I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight."
18
"You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it."
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