Comedy Quotes - Page 20

• I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.

  Tina Fey

  Basketball, Baby, Champion

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. November, 2003.

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• My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.

  Vince Vaughn

  Character, People, Tragedy

  Source: movieweb.com

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• People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

  Ray Stevens

  Song, People, Remember

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• There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

  Robin Ince

  Writing, Thinking, Patterns

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• Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

  Natasha Leggero

  Profession, Just One

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• What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

  Gore Vidal

  Views, Matter, Ends

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

  Lorne Michaels

  Thinking, Healthy, Way

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• The striking thing about New Girl is that under all the comedy, theres something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Girl, Real, Way

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• Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Art, People, Generosity

  Marvin Mudrick (1981). “Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

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• And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Laughing, Honor

  "The Abolition of Man". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1943.

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• It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day.

  Woody Allen

  Issues, People, Intellectual

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• I love 30 Rock. It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Rocks, Gold

  "Community creator Dan Harmon". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 23, 2010.

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• Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Adventure, Levels

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• My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Masters, Trade, Jack Of All Trades

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• Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever and just threw it away and never showed anybody. Everyone needs to get that first bad screenplay out of your system before you start writing other stuff.

  Scot Armstrong

  Writing, College, Trying

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Directors, Fans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Writing, Attachment, Goal

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• I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.

  Noah Baumbach

  People, Laughing, Different

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• It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Destiny, Government, Ideas

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

  Ricky Gervais

  Odd Things, Done, Television

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

  Michael Hirst

  Writing, Thinking, Form

  "Interview: ‘Vikings’ creator Michael Hirst teases Season 3’s prophecies, romance". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 18, 2015.

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• I think that when you’re doing a comedy and it makes you laugh, there’s a certain… like you can reject it, and it’s okay. It’s not promoting it or making it seem cool. I think that’s when you get into hot water.

  Michael Pena

  Thinking, Water, Laughing

  "The Motion/Captured Interview: Michael Pena in ‘Observe and Report’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. April 7, 2009.

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• I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

  Robert Wyatt

  Comedian, Life Is, Cosmic

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

  Megan Mullally

  Gone, Dignity, Made

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.

  Andrew Denton

  Two, Laughing, People

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