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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it'... JACK LEMMON And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where ... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic... MATT DILLON 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the ai...
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My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a jok... CAROL BURNETT
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's rea... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
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The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want... TREVOR NOAH
Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated r... ELLEN DEGENERES
What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight m... CHRISTOPHER GUEST
I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare ... BO BURNHAM Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.
BELINDA STEWART-WILSON
I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is w... MAGGIE SMITH
It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous. CHRISTOPHER GUEST There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good c...
ELLEN PAGE
Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of your... AISHA TYLER The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something abou...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. OLIVIA THIRLBY I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less win...
MICHAEL MOSLEY
That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there&#... JASON SUDEIKIS
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and faken... LOUIS C. K. One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension ...
LEWIS BLACK
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy atta... SAM KINISON Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the jo...
GREG KINNEAR Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I gue...
JARED PADALECKI
It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for com... STEVE GUTTENBERG
I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinnin... ALAN ARKIN I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it'...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON
You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. DON RICKLES Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.
MARK LINN-BAKER
Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be. JOAN RIVERS
I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy. ZACH CREGGER
Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. EDDIE IZZARD I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I t...
DAVID DOBKIN I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you...
RALPH BROWN
A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before ... JAY PHAROAH
It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like ... MIKE NICHOLS
From 'Chappelle's Show' to 'Tosh.0,' there's so much race comedy. It's o... ERIC ANDRE
Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. EDDIE IZZARD
There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used ... JO BRAND With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laug...
BROOKE NEVIN
For me, 'Arrested Development' is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It's so i... JOHN KRASINSKI I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
TED LEVINE
Kaizad Gustad is quite crazy, and he has weird ideas, and 'Boom' is one such idea. It's ... AMITABH BACHCHAN
I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't... CARL REINER With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic come...
CALLIE KHOURI Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, b...
BOB SAGET
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thin... BRYAN CRANSTON If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
DAVE CHAPPELLE
To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, a... ERIC IDLE I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy ...
CAYDEN BOYD The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.
KURT BRAUNOHLER
Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a we... IVAN REITMAN I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thi...
MACKENZIE DAVIS The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each ot...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun t...
LAURA SAN GIACOMO
The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There... STEPHEN COLBERT
People talk, 'Oh your father's a misogynist, look what he said about women,' like, on &#... DONALD TRUMP, JR.
My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just ... PAUL MOONEY Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it -...
BRYAN CALLEN Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.
DAVID R. ELLIS I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to po...
SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU
I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for thre... STEVEN WRIGHT Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a differen...
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TAYLOR SCHILLING
I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It'... MIRANDA HART
It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at ... ADAM MCKAY Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.
DAVE COULIER The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our de...
JANE RULE I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of...
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JEFF ROSS
I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their... JERRY SEINFELD
To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life. STEVEN WRIGHT
I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old... LILY TOMLIN
For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage goin... BO BURNHAM
Maybe it's because I come from a very utopian world of being a comedian, but I'm used to man... TREVOR NOAH It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, a...
AARON RUELL Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, tha...
NORM MACDONALD
I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definit... MARY STEENBURGEN I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ense...
DAN HARMON For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
DAVID FINCHER Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is n...
DAVID IVES I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic al...
EVAN PETERS At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, ma...
JEN KIRKMAN I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like...
JEFF ROSS I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's...
EDIE FALCO For me, I believe comedy's about taking risks, taking chances, working in a safe environment whe...
MICHAEL SPILLER I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And peop...
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