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There's an elusive element to comedy, but nobody gets it for free. That's why comedians seldom criticise each other.
If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.
When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.
One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.
I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.
Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
I really used to like TVMaxwell, which is a classic, amazing, super-underrated comedy channel. And Cyndago was great.
Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.
I just showed up at the Comedy Store. You keep showing up, and you keep showing up, and eventually, somebody notices.
I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.
I'd actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama - an intense indie road-trip movie.
Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.
It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.
If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?
'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
For me, 'Arrested Development' is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It's so incredibly flawless and perfect.
But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.
When I was in Canada I shot a romantic comedy that I'm looking forward to having people see, it's called 'The Weekend.'
I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.
I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.
Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.
I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.
I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.
You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
I absolutely love doing comedy, however, of course as an actor, I would love the opportunity to do more dramatic roles.
I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.
All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.
I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.
I enjoy doing these silly little videos, and a lot of stuff online is stuff I actually created for my live comedy shows.
People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.
I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?
[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'
Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.
Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.
Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.
Comedy brings out this rage in people: they get furious when they don't like something. I have some lovely hardcore fans.
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.
I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.