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Comedy Quotes
"You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy."
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"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."
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"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
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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."
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"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
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"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."
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"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."
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"Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself."
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"I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area."
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"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
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"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."
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"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."
40
"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."
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"I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy."
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"I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy."
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"When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy."
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"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."
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"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."
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"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
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"We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese."
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"I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing."
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"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?"
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"I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous."
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"Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with."
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"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
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"I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit."
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"I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented."
37
"It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint."
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"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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"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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"I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan."
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"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."
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"There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy."
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