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I find Billy Eichner to be hilarious, though I also imagine that for many, a little goes a long way. Billy provides a kind of comedy the Parks and Recreations show did not have - an insane person screaming at everyone, and our job going forward, as it is with all of our characters, is to develop him and make him more three dimensional.

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor do not know, that's mystery!

I, for one, can't wait for this election to be over, because the curse of Donald Trump in a satirical comedy way is that, one, he's such a large character; it's hard to satirize at times. Two, he's sucking all the air out of every room he walks into so every attempt leads to covering only him. You can't turn a corner in New York City without people talking about Donald Trump, without talking about the same things about Donald Trump.

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

I got my start in silent radio.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

"I got up early because I wanted to." - Nobody

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.