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“The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.”

“If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.”

People Ifs Feels Should Two Happens Comedy Imagine Listening Fool Conversation Dialogue Absurd Imagine That Remarks Irritated

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

“All comedy comes from a dark place.”

Dark Comedy Dark Places

Author:Katt Williams

“The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.”

Persons Would Be Term Comedy Hero Eric

Author:Dawn French

“All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it.”

Ifs Audience Comedy Fans Internet Video Episodes Niche Halos

Author:Ricky Van Veen

“I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.”

Numbers Struggle Comedy New York College Impact Performers Niche

Author:Billy Eichner

“It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.”

Wells Has Beens Done Comedy Harder These Days Conventions Well Done

Author:Dana Fox

“You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.”

People Comedy Can Not Behaving Badly

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.”

People Ifs Feels Writing Stories Comedy Painting Poet Paint Painter Not Sure Short Story Estimation

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.”

Ifs Looks Shows Successful Comedy Player Introducing Format Comedy Shows Skit

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.”

Winning Situation Comedy Stressful

Author:Jordan Peele

“Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.”

Want Comedy Sketch Comedy

Author:Jordan Peele

“I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.”

Comedy Serious Drama

Author:Faith Prince

“I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.”

Real Shows Might Comedy Fans Spots Disguise

Author:Paul Putner

“Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.”

Long Play Bigs Sports Comedy Computer Clubs Chess Obsession Obsessed Big Things Long Life

Author:Chris Hardwick

“The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.”

Goal Voice Views Audience Comedy Point Of View Comic Latches

Author:Chris Hardwick

“American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.”

Trying Cases Comedy Television Office British Versions American Television British Comedy

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.”

People Comedy

Author:Chris Hardwick

“My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.”

Study Comedy Calculations

Author:Jackie Mason

“I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humor doesn't know what he's talking about.”

Knows Art I Can Talking Comedy Students Humour Philosophical

Author:Jackie Mason

“I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.”

Character Stories Individual Comedy Approach Stakes

Author:Seth Gordon

“A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.”

Character Film Space Comedy Mines Office Hangover Office Space

Author:Seth Gordon

“I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.”

People Thinking Way Littles Important Stuff Bits Comedy Little Bit Down And Irrelevant

Author:Seth Gordon

“British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.”

Years Has Beens Different Bigs Inspiration Comedy British Australian British Comedy

Author:Jason Gann

“I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.”

Feels Audience Comedy Scene Pure Chicago Showcase

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.”

Heart Real Stories Dream Bigs Would Be Careers Laughing Comedy Crazy Real Story Real Heart

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.”

Needs Seems Certain Comedy Drama Aesthetic

Author:Rob McElhenney

“I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world.”

“It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.”

People Mean Happens Comedy Subjects Aspect Abortion Cannibalism Uptight

Author:Rob McElhenney

“I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.”

Wells Comedy Dramatic

Author:Don Most

“I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.”

People Want Ideas Comedy Drama

Author:Bruce Nash

“I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.”

Ifs Reality Reading Vision Comedy Drama Directors Dramatic Tone Performers

Author:Amy Seimetz

“I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.”

Littles Real Jobs Comedy College Majors Administration Recreation Real Jobs

Author:Carlos Alazraqui

“I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.”

Firsts Shows Fun Comedy Comedy Shows

Author:Steve Burton

“When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.”

Firsts Play Character Desire Acting Comedy Theater Musical Tragic Opera Musical Theater

Author:Leslie Easterbrook

“To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.”

Knows Hard Guy Stuff Comedy Team Compromise Other Guys

Author:Cheech Marin

“I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.”

Thinking Comedy Instinct

Author:Austin Peck

“The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.”

Hard Facts Stories Problem Jobs Comedy Horror Standards Despite Labels Genre Dirty Tone No Problem Woven Whimsical Funny Story Dirty Jobs

Author:Christopher Moore

“Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.”

Love Comedy Tragedy England France Germany Opera Melodrama

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Don't take yourself too seriously. It just makes life all the harder. It'll all come out in the wash anyway, because God's glory eventually will eclipse everything that goes wrong on this earth. Lighten up and learn to laugh at yourself. None of us is infallible. We make mistakes in life, and more often than not, they're funny. Sometimes, being your own source of comedy is the most fun of all.”

Self Sometimes Earth Fun Mistake Laughing Comedy Source Glory Harder Making Mistakes Infallible Eclipse Laugh At Yourself Life Mistakes We Make Mistakes Learn To Laugh At Yourself

Author:Luci Swindoll

“Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.”

Life Wells May Seems Romance Life Is Fiction Fantasy Comedy Mystery Special Effects Drama Horror Tragedy Suspense Plot Lacking Dose Admission Special Effects

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.”

People Life Is Suffering Dies Born Known Comedy Dog Tragic Continuing Fleas Born To Die

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”

Comedy Despair Appreciation

Author:Christopher Fry

“I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.”

Needs Age Funny Comedy Aging Witty Need You Bladder Don't Need You I Don't Need You

Author:Stephen Fry

“Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.”

Looks Guy Known Comedy News Musical Idiot Good News New Zealand

Author:Bret McKenzie

“When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.”

Feels Looks Seems Purpose House Comedy Impossible Despair Awful Void Blackness

Author:Stephen Fry

“It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.”

Comedy Cliche Untrue Unfaithful

Book:Moab is My Washpot: An Autobiography

Source: Moab is My Washpot: An Autobiography

“When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.”

Knows Comedy Clothings Backwards Infant

Book:Paperweight

Source: Paperweight

“I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.”

Thinking Art Talking Watches Comedy Television Oneself

Book:Paperweight

Source: Paperweight

“Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.”

Five Comedy Eight Tone Euphoria Homophobes Passion And Desire

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

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