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In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.
I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.
I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.
I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.
Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.
'Namastey London' is my favourite Bollywood film, it is a complete pack - it has entertainment, drama, emotion and comedy.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.
I don't have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, 'I have to do a drama next,' or 'I am looking for an action movie now.'
I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.
Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.
I'm doing this pilot called 'Demon.' Kevin Smith is directing it. It's a comedy drama. I play a guy who rises up from Hell.
I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.
It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.
It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.
I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.
Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
I think it might be interesting to give an Emmy to an outstanding background performance in either a comedy or drama series.
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.
The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.
If you are not on TV, you don't really exist. I want to bring my comedy to the world and tell my story to a bigger audience.
I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.
My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.
For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.
I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.
I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.
At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.
Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.
Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.
Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.
I just watched a ton of comedy and saw a ton of different styles, and eventually you think, 'Oh, yeah, I could be like that.'
There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.
I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.
If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.
America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.
I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.
Stath Lets Flats' at its heart is a character comedy show about a family-run estate agents, but it's inspired by a real family!
You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.
Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.