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I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.
I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.
Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.
Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.
he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.
Dhol' is a light-hearted thriller revolving around four unemployed guys who are chasing money. It's my first attempt at comedy.
When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.
I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.
It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.
I really enjoy comedy, but I also still really enjoy the drama aspect. So, I don't like to narrow my possible chances out there.
I'm a huge fan of the people and things that are considered the epitomes of tastelessness - things like drag and raunchy comedy.
I would say about 90 per cent of drunken idiots in comedy clubs wear ties, particularly in London where I work most of the time.
I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.
Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.
Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!
I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.
I have no real enemies in comedy, but there are a couple of people who I'd laugh about if I heard that their legs had fallen off.
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
Trixie is like a hyper-feminine child's toy who has it all. I love looking like I'm from Toys 'R Us but serving off-color comedy.
Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her work, and was an incredible fan.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.
Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.
Freddie Prinze was my idol, and he died, and there is not much of his stuff to look at. But now, your comedy can live on forever.
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.
Before I went into comedy I was a loner, very much wrapped up in my own thoughts. But I always liked myself and the way I thought.
Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.
That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.
If I apply myself to rap, I'm gonna be the best rapper alive. If I apply myself to comedy, I'm going to be the funniest guy alive.
As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.
The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.
I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.