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“Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.”

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Author:Fred Willard

“I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.”

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Author:Jessica Walter

“Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.”

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Author:Matt Walsh

“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

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Author:Mike White

“There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.”

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Author:Norman Wisdom

“I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!”

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Author:Lev Yilmaz

“When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.”

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Author:Lev Yilmaz

“That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.”

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Book:Oh, the Things I Know!

Source: Oh, the Things I Know!

“I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.”

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Author:Al Franken

“It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.”

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Author:Al Franken

“When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.”

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Author:Al Franken

“The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.”

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Author:Al Franken

“Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.”

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Author:Al Franken

“I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.”

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Author:Al Franken

“If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.”

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Author:Paul Lynde

“If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.”

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Author:Al Franken

“Good comedy is ageless.”

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Author:Ted Levine

“The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.”

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Author:Al Franken

“I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.”

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Author:Wendy Liebman

“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.”

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Author:Aasif Mandvi

“Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.”

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Author:Al Franken

“Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.”

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Author:Al Franken

“I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.”

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Author:Christa Miller

“Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.”

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Author:Isaiah Mustafa

“I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!”

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Author:Jayma Mays

“American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.”

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Author:Joe Manganiello

“I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.”

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Author:Leslie Mann

“Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.”

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Author:Melissa McCarthy

“My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.”

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Author:Bernie Mac

“The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.”

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Author:Bernie Mac

“I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.”

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Author:Bernie Mac

“I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.”

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Author:Bret Michaels

“I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.”

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Author:Eric McCormack

“I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.”

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Author:Sofia Vergara

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

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Author:Vince Vaughn

“I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.”

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Author:Vince Vaughn

“It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.”

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Author:Olivia Williams

“I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.”

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Author:Justin Zackham

“Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what...Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.”

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Author:Owen Gleiberman

“What drives the creative person is that we see it all.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“I watched a lot of comedy growing up.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.”

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Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.”

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Author:Dick Cavett

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