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A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

All comedy comes from a dark place.

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.

All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some dramas out there that are so broad and wacky that they don't even pass for a broad, wacky comedy.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

A lot of comedy is really DIY. You're kind of doing it yourself.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

A lot of time with comedy stuff, half of the stuff on my feed is: 'Haha, good for you!' 'Hey, thanks for making my day!' And the other half is: 'Defund the CBC!' 'All Newfoundlanders are hoagie-hogs!' It's just left and right and there's never anything in between.

A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

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.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

A pie in the face is funny. Comedy gold.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.