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A pie in the face is funny. Comedy gold.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.

As a comedian I appreciate every kind of comedy. You decide for yourself what you're going to do.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.

As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

As a news person, you can't spend all your time responding to a Comedy Central star. It's not what we do.

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu.

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

At the beggining of my career, for me the comedy circuit was a combination of desperation and the fact that it was something I could do. I sort of meandered and really had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I had a go at stand-up, and I was sort of okay at it. I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me. So I'd say it was probably more about that than anything.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, "Take that, Lipitor.

Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

Beloved King of Comedy.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.