“As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.” IdeasRealPlayRunningComedyMinutesTheaterWigsDialectCorsetsIntermission Author:Lily Rabe
“I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.” GivingLongSaidRunningRememberLinesRoomsLaughingComedyLosingGive MeFoundationScriptsBobLong RunsDressingsDressing Rooms Author:Jeffrey Tambor
“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.” HomeRunningTogetherMovingNextComedyInvolvedFocusedMoving OnProgressiveSenateLooking BackBack HomeMoved OnKnittingMinnesotaMidwestMoving Back Author:Al Franken
“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.” ShowsRunningActorsComedyDramaSceneOne DayLowsPerformancesTragedyFarce Author:Dick Cavett
“I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.” KnowsProblemRunningComedyJokesGentlemanLadies And GentlemenImpeachment Author:David Letterman
“Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.” WarRunningSituationComedyStyleTelevisionDramaElementsSpringEuropeMachinesResponseMythInevitableLogicalAdvertisementsIrrationality Author:Arnold Aronson
“Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.” ThinkingWayYearsRunningTodayComedyFocusGroupsYears AgoPollsFocus Groups Author:Bob Newhart
“I find that working with friends is always the goal, even if its just one person. Because the comedy community is kind of insular, its easy to run into people youve worked with, even if you worked with someone on something for a day, or whatever.” PeopleIfsKindPersonsRunningEasyGoalCommunityComedyJust One Author:Lizzy Caplan