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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 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.

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 mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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 broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

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

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

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 comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

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

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

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

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

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

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