In the '90s, comedy was at a very low point, but these days, you've got people like Hannibal Burress, Ron Funches, Maria Bamford - people who can play any club, anywhere.


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ANDY SERKIS
Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobb...
ANDY SERKIS
I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see pan...
ANDY SERKIS
I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characte...
ANDY SERKIS
People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?'...
ANDY SERKIS
Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it&...
ANDY SERKIS
I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people...
ANDY SERKIS
Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of ca...
ANDY SERKIS
Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.
ANDY SERKIS
I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they...
ANDY SERKIS
Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.
ANDY SERKIS
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don...
ANDY ROONEY
The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.
ANDY COHEN
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day...
ANDY ROONEY
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
ANDY ROONEY
I think Heaven and afterlife is for the living; it's for the people that continue on and remembe...
ANDY BIERSACK
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
ANDY WARHOL
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.
ANDY WILLIAMS
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
ANDY WARHOL
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
ANDY WARHOL
If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode...
ANDY SAMBERG
Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.
ANDY SAMBERG
Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being g...
ANDY SAMBERG
Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.
ANDY SAMBERG
No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn&#...
ANDY SAMBERG
It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business t...
ANDY SAMBERG
I'm a big Letterman fan.
ANDY SAMBERG
I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. ...
ANDY SAMBERG
I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Sa...
ANDY SAMBERG
A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it...
ANDY SAMBERG
If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have abou...
ANDY SAMBERG
I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be bo...
ANDY SAMBERG
That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
ANDY SAMBERG
You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life....
ANDY SAMBERG
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
ANDY WARHOL
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumer...
ANDY WARHOL
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
ANDY HOBSBAWM