I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

I think comedy Ive learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.

Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

In 'Sugar' I'll be singing in every episode and I'll be acting and doing comedy. It's ideal for me if it works.

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

I love comedies and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. ‘The Other Guys’ was not lazy.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.

I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.

I know Jonathan Van Ness from comedy, and he's got this wonderful show on Funny or Die called 'Gay of Thrones.'

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

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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