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The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.

The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and has soft music in the background. Either that or it's played for comedy. The British are kind of hung up about sex. They find it kind of titillating and they make jokes about it because they're nervous.

The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.

The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They’re superficial and I like articulate comedy.

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

The key to comedy is commitment - if you're afraid, you shouldn't be a comedian.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often I'm surprised at what an audience will or will not laugh at. I have to stay very, very open to an audiences first exposure to that material and how they react to it.

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.

The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

The nude thing, I don't know. It's sillier somehow. It's more like physical comedy. But kissing someone, it feels invasive to have everybody watching me.

The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.