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Comedy Quotes
"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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"Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama."
35
"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."
34
"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
34
"I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real."
34
"You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show."
34
"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
34
"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."
33
"Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do."
33
"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"
33
"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."
33
"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."
33
"And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit."
32
"You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it."
32
"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
32
"It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy."
31
"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."
31
"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."
31
"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."
30
"I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards."
30
"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."
30
"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."
30
"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."
29
"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."
29
"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."
29
"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."
29
"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."
29
"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."
29
"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."
29
"I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull."
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