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Comedy Quotes
"I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year."
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"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."
18
"I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real."
18
"You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show."
18
"When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy."
18
"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."
18
"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."
18
"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"
18
"It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy."
18
"Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with."
18
"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."
18
"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."
17
"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer."
17
"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."
17
"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
17
"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."
17
"Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do."
17
"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."
17
"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."
17
"Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd."
17
"And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit."
16
"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."
16
"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."
16
"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."
16
"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
16
"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
16
"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
16
"I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull."
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