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“I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.”

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Author:Brendan O'Carroll

“You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.”

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Author:Albert Brooks

“At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.”

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Author:Pearl Cleage

“Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.”

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Author:Adriana Trigiani

“If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.”

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“I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.”

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Author:Adam Carolla

“I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.”

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Author:Stephen Gaghan

“And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.”

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Author:Nicholas Stoller

“I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God, what are people going to think, then you're not writing comedy. You have to write what makes you laugh, and then the world hopefully laughs as well.”

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Author:David Mandel

“When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.”

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Author:Eric Idle

“In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.”

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Author:Charlie Brooker

“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”

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Author:Horace Walpole

“Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.”

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Author:Steven Moffat

“When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.”

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Author:Steven Moffat

“The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.”

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Author:Robert Orben

“There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.”

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Author:Sharon Horgan

“I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.”

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Author:Takeshi Kitano