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Comedy Quotes
"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."
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"I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan."
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"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
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"It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy."
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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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"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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"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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"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 wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."
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"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
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"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
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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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"You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show."
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"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."
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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."
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"I think you can tell the human condition better through 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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"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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"About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie."
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"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
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"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."
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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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"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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"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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