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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Comedies are something Id be very interesting in doing.

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.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.

Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they still wanted to try something else. They came to me and said they wanted to do something that was internet focused and created original content on their site, so they could compete with the funny or dies and what not. So that was the premise, and they gave us a small amount of money, $5000, and from there it turned into the show.

Comedy clubs are a bit more expensive. That's the problem with some of these places. But the flipside of that is, if you do too many shows for free or $5, then people don't understand why you can't fly to Milwaukee and do a show for a $3 cover. That won't even pay for my flight.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect.  that's the sacrifice you make to do it.

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

Comedy is a serious business. It's frustrating when I can't find the right thing that makes the crew laugh. If I don't make them laugh, I get very disappointed in myself. You don't really have a live audience, so you just depend on the crew to let you know if you're doing something funny.