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Comedy Quotes
"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
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"I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit."
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"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."
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"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."
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"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."
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"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."
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"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
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"Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it."
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"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
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"And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit."
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"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."
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"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."
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"I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real."
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"There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy."
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"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."
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"I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy."
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"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."
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"The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."
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"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."
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"You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show."
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"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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"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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"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."
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"Uh-oh, I hope he doesn't start rattling off dirty limericks next; she'll probably burn the hotel down."
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"I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull."
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