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“An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.”

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Author:Elinor Lipman

“A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

“I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.”

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Author:Nick Offerman

“I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.”

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Author:Eugene Levy

“I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.”

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Author:Jared Padalecki

“Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

“I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.”

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Author:Octavia Spencer

“If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit.”

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Author:Jeremy Sisto

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

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Author:Seth Gordon

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

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Author:Austin Peck

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

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Book:Paperweight

Source: Paperweight

“It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.”

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Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think that we all have the same comedic tendencies, and that's why it works. We all sort of agree with what's funny.”

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Author:Bradley Cooper

“Obviously, comedy, or art in general, or television, or whatever you want to call it's all subjective. But I do like to know what people are thinking. I don't know how long I'll keep doing that. As it goes on and on, I might become more fearful of it. For the time being, I'm not opposed to reading what people write.”

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Author:Charlie Day

“I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.”

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Author:David Shrigley

“I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.”

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Author:Tim Heidecker

“I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.”

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Author:Will Arnett

“I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.”

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Author:Guy Ritchie

“My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.”

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Author:Michael Richards

“I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.”

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Author:Jillian Bell

“On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“In a way, comedy is like sex. The more noise you hear, the better you think you're doing.”

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Book:Everything and a Kite

Source: Everything and a Kite

“Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

“I never wanted to do just comedy or just drama; sometimes, going back and forth you can get yourself in trouble which happened to me on other things so you're always trying for a delicate balance - I also think that they compliment each other so well.”

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Author:Mike Binder

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