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“Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.”

Fun Difficult Comedy Tricks Having Fun Performing Slapstick

Author:Maureen O'Hara

“Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot.”

People Firsts Littles Fall Next Easy Comedy Falling Down Hoot

Author:Sarah Kane

“Comedy is equal to stupidity. As much you are stupid as much you watch comedy as much you stupid become.”

Stupid Equal You Become Are Much As Stupidy

Author:Deyth Banger

“Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.”

Comedy Realism Exaggerated Believable Believability

Author:Paul Lynde

“Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they hate me?"”

People Firsts Hate Comedy Opening Frightening Hate Me They Hate Me

Author:Colin Jost

“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.”

Comedy Boundaries

Author:Ari Graynor

“Comedy is great; you get to laugh! Life is so serious.”

Life Is Laughing Comedy Serious

Author:Clifton Collins, Jr.

“Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.”

“Comedy is hard to do, and I don't know why it doesn't have its own category in awards. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. It doesn't get respect. It's hard. It's really hard. It would be more gratifying to get something for a comedy, because it doesn't happen much or at all.”

People Thinking Knows Hard Happens Would Be Comedy Drama Harder Awards Categories

Author:Leslie Mann

“Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.”

Hard Comedy Cliche

Author:Jeff Daniels

“Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.”

Ifs Results Laughing Comedy Drama Harder Expecting

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Comedy is helping a lot at the moment. It also seems to be getting under Trump's skin and revealing a lot about the kind of thin-skinned fool that he is.”

Kind Moments Helping Comedy Fool Skins

Author:Sharon Horgan

“Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.”

Comedy Surface Hostile Profundity

Author:Mason Cooley

“Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.”

Character Stories Film Imagination Effort Comedy Tools Missions Solo Collaborative Effort

Author:Dane Cook

“Comedy is important! When youre having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.”

Want Important Home Watches Laughing Comedy Coming Home Stressful Make You Laugh Stressful Day

Author:Michael Cudlitz

“Comedy is in my blood. Too bad it's not in my act.”

Comedy Blood

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.”

Hard Comedy Failing Not Afraid Afraid To Fail

Author:Bill Hader

“Comedy is just anger with a dash of humour thrown in to cover the rage”

Comedy Anger Rage Standup Comedy

Author:Angelo Marcos

Source: Victim Mentality

“Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.”

Way Comedy Complaining Entertaining

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.”

Comedy Profession Just One

Author:Natasha Leggero

“Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.”

Ifs Way Writing I Can Natural Comedy Jokes Knack Setups

Author:Matt LeBlanc

“Comedy is king. It has to be.”

Comedy Kings

Author:Steve Pink

“Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, "More, give me more of that stuff," because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.”

Giving Stuff Brain Comedy Give Me Comedian Sugar Dealer Junkie

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.”

Inspirational Comedy Bottles Lightning Catching

Author:Goldie Hawn

“Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is the worst.”

Thinking Wells Comedy Worst Likes Expensive Cheese

Author:W. Kamau Bell

“Comedy is like fictional charm. It's the charm of fiction. Or the charisma of fiction. When you meet somebody who's immediately charismatic, you're attracted to that person. And in fiction it's got to come out in either one of two ways: in the prose itself, and you're hooked immediately because you never want to leave such a colorful and penetrating world. Or, it's simply being a funny writer.”

World Comedy Prose Colorful Charisma Charismatic

Author:Joshua Ferris

“Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.”

Ifs Knows Feels Long Shows Bits Answers Laughing Comedy Ready Tools Boxes Math Checks Make Sense

Author:Jennifer Carpenter

“Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.”

Way Comedy Band Musician Music Is

Author:Rashida Jones

“Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.”

Knows Comedy Player Keys

Author:Christopher Guest

“Comedy is like sex for the brain. And the brain has to fuck.”

Humor Sex Comedy Comedian Joke Funny Quotes The Goodbye Song

Author:Karl Kristian Flores

Source: The Goodbye Song

“Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.”

People Giving Should Believe Looks Littles Important Joy Values Comedy Underestimate Lively Invigorating

Author:Mel Brooks

“Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.”

Comedy Happenings Tragedy

Author:W. C. Fields

“Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.”

“Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, Maybe it works, but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more.”

Looks Doe Difficult Comedy Drama Scene Requirements

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.”

Kind Real Use Comedy Scene Harder Technique Being Real

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.”

People Belief Challenges Levels Laughing Comedy Making People Laugh

Author:Jenna Elfman

“Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.”

People Thinking Difficult Laughing Comedy Cry Easier Training Tragedy

Author:Vivien Leigh

“Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.”

Passion Comedy My Passion

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.”

Comedy Somewhere Else

Author:Lloyd Kaufman

“Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.”

Hard Comedy Hard Work Timing Rehearsal

Author:Larry Hagman

“Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.”

World Sometimes Difficult Comedy Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Jonathan Banks

“Comedy is not pretty.”

Comedy Not Pretty

Author:Steve Martin

“Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.”

Comedy

Author:Ed Speleers

“Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.”

Comedy Supposed To Be Telling The Truth

Author:Paula Patton

“Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable.”

Humor Pain Comedy Depression Laughter Laughter Is The Best Medicine

Author:Mindy Greenstein

“Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.”

Comedy Tragedy Catchy

Author:Pico Iyer

“Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.”

People World Needs Matter Humor Funny Comedy Taste Europe Clown Personal Taste

Author:Marc Maron

“Comedy is often about pain.”

Pain Comedy

Author:Eric Andre

“Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.”

Want Trying Long Situation Laughing Comedy Drama Harder

Author:Nina Dobrev

“Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.”

Difficult Comedy

Author:Margaret Cho

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