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“And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.”

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Author:Kevin Pollak

“When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?”

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Author:Carol Burnett

“The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.”

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Author:Xenocrates

“I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.”

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Author:Anna Faris

“Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.”

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Author:Russell Peters

“I dont think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because were pretty much two different kinds of actors. Hes done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like Uncle Buck and Home Alone and Home Alone 2. And Ive done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.”

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Author:Brian Bonsall

“Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.”

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Author:Paul Scheer

“If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor do not know, that's mystery!”

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Author:Melvin Helitzer

“I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to see me in a theater and they want to have their picture taken with me, it's not the end of the world. It's one of those things, where I'm not the only comic who does it. A lot of comics do it. If I'm doing a 4,000-seat venue, it might be a little bit of a different task, but it's all good.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

“It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.”

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Author:Ashton Kutcher

“A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.”

“Once you capitulate to one dictator, does that mean that the next dictator or the next terrorist that says you're not going to make a comedy about - or a film at all about ISIS. All of us in public life have a responsibility right now to speak out and to say, 'No, Sony, you did the wrong thing' and to say to Hollywood, come behind - the other studios should come behind Sony and offer their support.”

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Author:Ed Royce

“My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Why does that pharmacist have to be two and a half feet higher than everybody else? Who the hell is this guy? "Clear out, everybody. I'm working with pills up here. I'm taking them from this big bottle and then I'm gonna put them in the little bottle. That's my whole job. I can't be down on the floor with you people."”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“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.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.”

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Author:Christoph Waltz

“I see parody as another form of comedy. If you are making a comedy, there are a lot of different ways to do it. I'm not necessarily always aware of my quote-unquote persona when doing things like that. It's more, "What does the character need at the time?" I'm certainly drawn to certain types of material, there's no doubt about that.”

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Author:Bruce Campbell

“I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.”

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Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.”

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Author:Anatoly Karpov

“Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.”

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Author:John Hodgman

“I really like people who can do both drama and comedy and not some like middle of the road do both drama and comedy. I'm not talking about some guy who does these bland dramedies all the time. I'm talking about people that have done heavy drama and who have done heavy comedy.”

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Author:James Gunn

“Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.”

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Author:Matt Nix

“A lot of times what's satisfying to me in comedy is when a woman successfully does self-care.”

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Author:Jenny Slate

“I think we're going to transition with our comedy programming, trying to broaden the audience and broaden what the network does. Those Thursday comedies, which the critics love and we love, tend to be a bit more narrow than we'd ultimately like, as we go forward.”

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Author:Robert Greenblatt

“I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.”

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Author:Rashida Jones

“I don't have a favorite genre. I mean, I always sort of base it on instinct. And it does seem to be that after I finish something that is very dramatic, I end up inevitably wanting to do a comedy or something like that.”

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Author:Carla Gugino

“Why does Louis CK get named Comedy Person of the Year? I should be named Comedy Person of the Year just so I can parlay it into another few weeks of road work.”

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Author:Andy Kindler

“I like all kinds of comedy. I like comedy that doesn't talk about real beliefs or serious thoughts, but then I also like the stuff that does. I think it just depends. It's a completely personal choice.”

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Author:Maria Bamford