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Comedy Quotes
"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."
"You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy."
"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."
"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."
"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."
"I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy."
"You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it."
"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."
"Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas."
"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
"Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful."
"Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive."
"When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy."
"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."
"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."
"I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way."
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."
"I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards."
"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."
"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."
"I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan."
"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?"
"I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous."
"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."
"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
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