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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.

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.

Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle totalitarianism.