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Comedy Quotes
"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
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"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer."
9
"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."
9
"A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it."
9
"I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing."
9
"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
9
"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."
9
"I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit."
9
"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."
9
"Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with."
9
"Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd."
9
"I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy."
9
"Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama."
9
"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."
9
"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
9
"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."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas."
8
"When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy."
8
"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."
8
"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?"
8
"I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous."
8
"The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain."
8
"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."
8
"I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage."
8
"Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory."
8
"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
8
"You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out."
8
"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."
8
"And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit."
7
"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."
7
"I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real."
7
"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."
7
"I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy."
7
"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."
7
"I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way."
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