You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.
Miranda Hart
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My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.
Brian d'Arcy James
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I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.
Ryan Gosling
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There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.
Jenny Slate
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I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.
David Chase
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You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.
Keegan-Michael Key
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I don't mind it so much if I get type cast as an authority figure. I get to do comedy no matter what it is, so it doesn't bother me.
Rob Riggle
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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Dick Cavett
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Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.
Pauly Shore
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Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.
Janeane Garofalo
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I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.
Michael Che
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I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.
Vir Das
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Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.
Mo Rocca
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I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.
Ciaran Hinds
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I think comedy tells a lot; you can tell what people think by what they laugh at.
Riaad Moosa
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I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
John Goodman
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Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.
David Farr
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I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary over here, and alternative comedy isn't so alternative.
Katherine Ryan
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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
Roger Ebert
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I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.
Dick Van Dyke
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I will always love to perform standup comedy.
Shelley Berman
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Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance.
Julian Barratt
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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
Michael Caine
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I love my 'Survivor's Remorse' cast. They are so funny and crazy, like a big dysfunctional family. It's so much fun, and I love the issues that we talk about on that show. We deal with nuanced and controversial issues, and we do it in a way that's funny. It's comedy.
Teyonah Parris
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