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I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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I also don't think the comedy industry is congested. If it is congested, then people should stop laughing.

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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

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It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

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My comedy is a bit cartoonlike, if I really think about it.

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I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.
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What I have found that my comedy is doing - and what really drives me - is to sort of bring women together through pointing out why we act so crazy.

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You can't deny the truth. And that's what makes smart comedy so good.

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I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

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I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.

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You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

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Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.

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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

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I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

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I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

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My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

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The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

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Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.

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Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.

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I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

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You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.

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Fear is what makes comedy funny.

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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.'

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I'd like to do something dramatic or a different kind of role, but I tend not to separate comedy and drama all that much.

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I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.

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Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

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Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.

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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

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It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

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I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.
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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

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

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The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
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I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.
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How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

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I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

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My comedy is not mine. It's a gift. I'm not that smart.

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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

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Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine.

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