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

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

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.

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!

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

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

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

But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over

But comedy is like music, it appeals to some people. Some people like Creed, those people are usually pretty stupid. But they probably also like Carrot Top. I would say that they're part of the same ilk.

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about to attack them.

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.

Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

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.

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.

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

Comedies are something Id be very interesting in doing.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind.