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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.

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

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 great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

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's nice about being on Comedy Central. You can't show your boobs even if you wanted to.

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.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.

The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and has soft music in the background. Either that or it's played for comedy. The British are kind of hung up about sex. They find it kind of titillating and they make jokes about it because they're nervous.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.

The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.

The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.