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She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

Since I started making movies, I've had to hear a million times, "When are you going to do a comedy?" I think I feel more comfortable in another kind of movie.

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends.

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

Somehow, I landed The Walking Dead and it's great because it stretches and works different muscles for me, and it really lets me stretch myself as a performer. Now, I'm really excited to flex my comedy muscle. Hopefully, I'll get some opportunities to do that.

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz. That's kinda cool because jazz is cool, but sometimes jazz sucks ... Maybe I'm the Kenny G of comedy.

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.

Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.

Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.

Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

That's one of the things about comedy - I think it works best when it's contextualized, as opposed to kind of an island of cleverness.

That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.

That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.