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By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

Class has always been a staple of British comedy. We've always been able to laugh at it. When British shows are translated to America, the absence of the equivalent class structure there often causes them to fail. But over here we've always got comic mileage out of it.

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

Comedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

Comedy Central made their own awards show. They were named best comedy channel.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

Comedy is allied to justice.

Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

Comedy is like fictional charm. It's the charm of fiction. Or the charisma of fiction. When you meet somebody who's immediately charismatic, you're attracted to that person. And in fiction it's got to come out in either one of two ways: in the prose itself, and you're hooked immediately because you never want to leave such a colorful and penetrating world. Or, it's simply being a funny writer.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.

Comedy is taken care of by a free market.

Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Comedies are often half-hour programs and then drama and action series are often an hour.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.

Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

Comedy is a camouflage for depression.

Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.

Comedy is a noble art.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.