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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.

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

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

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

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.

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.

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

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

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.