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Beloved King of Comedy.

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

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

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.

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.

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

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.

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.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.

Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

Comedy is a camouflage for depression.

Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.

Comedy is a noble art.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.