Comedy Quotes - Page 25

• Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

  Joel McHale

  Hair, Facts, Grunge

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

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• A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Giving Up, Careers, Guy

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

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Somewhere Else

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Writing, Painting, Film

  "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

  Ricky Gervais

  Acting, Fraternity

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

  Ron Moody

  Portrayal

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• Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

  Tracy Morgan

  Anything Goes, Clubs, Sacred

  "A Wild Conversation with Tracy Morgan". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

  Tracy Morgan

  Reality, Scary, Scary Things

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

  Zosia Mamet

  Dark, Laughing, Arise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

  Dean Norris

  College, Pranks

  "Q&A: Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

  Dean Norris

  Play, People, Would Be

  "Q&A: Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Character, Thinking, Obstacles

  "'The Big Bang Theory': Kunal Nayyar Talks Raj's New Confidence" by Lesley Goldber, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.

  Woody Allen

  Idols, Childhood, Sunrise

  "Woody chooses music over film", www.cnn.com. August 28, 2001.

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• Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

  John Updike

  Differences, Tragedy, Another Chance

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.238, Random House

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• The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

  Bill Maher

  Tonight, Humour

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, People

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• I always wore cowboy boots and drove a truck, and talked like this. So everywhere I would go in comedy people would say, "Foxworthy, you ain't nothing but a redneck from Georgia!" It kind of became a formula joke.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Cowboy, People

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfest". Do512 Interview, 2017.do512.com.

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• Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

  David Duchovny

  Heart, Journey, Example

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• I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

  David Letterman

  Change, Collective Unconscious, Justice

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• Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

  David Letterman

  Names, Iraq, Republican

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• Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Travel, Land

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• You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

  Penelope Wilton

  Laughing, Trying, Cry

  "A study in emotion" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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

  Craig Kilborn

  Dark, Dark Places

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• Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

  Ivan Reitman

  Strings Attached, Way, Honest

  Source: collider.com

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• If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.

  Guy Pearce

  Ideas, Sides, Steps

  Source: collider.com

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