With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.
Loni Love
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Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.
Bob Saget
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I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.
Martin Henderson
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
Andrew Denton
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I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.
Charlotte Rampling
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Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
Helen Fielding
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When you do comedy shows, you usually don't finish until about 11 P.M. Then you have this adrenaline dump, and you get hungry.
Ronny Chieng
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Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.
Denis Norden
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I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't, so I went there and saw all the comedians.
Sebastian Maniscalco
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Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at you just because of who you are? Nothing is as good, except maybe having a baby.
Howie Mandel
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I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
Steve Carell
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The appeal of comedy is that you're not going to look your best. Dressing up or dressing down is something I love and feel very comfortable doing. I feel at my least comfortable when I have to look at my best.
Sarah Alexander
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Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.
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I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn't feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I'm a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn't mean they should vote for the person I like. That's why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.
Bob Newhart
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When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.
Mort Sahl
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I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise, it just becomes long and rambling, indulgent. So I think you need both, frankly.
Melissa McCarthy
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Jimmy Kimmel has proven to be a preeminent voice in comedy, with 15 seasons of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' under his belt and successfully tackling the herculean task of hosting both the Emmys and the Oscars in the same season.
Channing Dungey
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Comedy is very disarming. It's a way to talk about things and still be light-hearted. And when it's done really well, you never see the strings, whereas when you watch an infomercial or a politician speaking, a lot of times you can see the strings, you can see what agenda they're trying to push.
Hasan Minhaj
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Comedy just comes naturally, so I've always gravitated to comedy.
Rose Abdoo
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I wasn't exactly uncomfortable when I did my first comedy. I was just very aware of the risks; if you do a comedy that sucks, and you suck in it, then you won't get a chance to do it again.
Donnie Wahlberg
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'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.
Scott Adsit
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Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.
Holly Hunter
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But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
Steve Coogan
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Sometimes my mum is very disapproving of my comedy.
Rebel Wilson
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