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    There's a very interesting article or symposium to be written on just the real difference between comedy filmmaking and non-comedy. Because, you know, when you work in comedy, you depend on audience screenings to tell you about your movie.

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    There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake

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    There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

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    There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

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    There’s obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

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    There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.

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    There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent anything. There are two items on the menu: comedy and tragedy.

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    There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality.

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    There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

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    The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

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    There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We figured it was time to make it available to people who have never watched it.

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    The status quo sucks.

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    The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

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    The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.

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    There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!

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    The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

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    The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

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    The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

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    The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

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    The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

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    The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

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    The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

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    The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

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    The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

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    The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

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    The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.

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    The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

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    The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

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    The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy.

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    The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!

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    The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

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    They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

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    They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

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    This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

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    They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

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    They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

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    This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

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    This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

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    Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

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    This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

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    This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.

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    Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

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    Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

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    This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

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    To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

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    T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

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    To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

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    To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

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    To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.

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    To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.