Comedy Quotes - Page 33

• Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious, then we wind up very highly sexual, and then we thug it out. Then things get a little funny again, with comedy and that kind of thing.

  KRS-One

  Thug, Wind, Breathing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• The best way to do comedy is to not filter yourself, and then you could always fix it later. You want to be able to push the envelope.

  Ken Marino

  Filters, Want, Envelopes

  Source: collider.com

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• Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's not a ton of jokes, but you get huge laughs because there's a moment of relief.

  Andy Samberg

  Character, Laughing, Relief

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

  Kathy Baker

  Drama, Character, Giving

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• Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people back promptly. The Will to Whatevs put me in a great mood because I was laughing out loud. Alone. That's hard to do.

  Mike Birbiglia

  People, Laughing, Email

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• In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

  Mason Cooley

  Witty, Winning, Style

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• Donald Trump announced today he is running for president of the United States. Traditionally that means six more weeks of comedy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Mean, President

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• It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of [Kupperman's] underground comics my shirt is literally soaking wet. This guy may have one of the best comedy brains on the planet right now.

  Conan O'Brien

  Reading, Guy, Brain

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• Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

  Mason Cooley

  Surface, Profundity, Hostile

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• I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in mirth; it is only fools who are serious.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Wise, Hero, Men

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• I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

  Martha Graham

  Thinking, World, Laziness

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Men, Population

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.328

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• I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

  John le Carre

  Clever, Thinking, Tragedy

  John le Carre (2002). “A Murder of Quality”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

  Frances Harper

  Country, Perseverance, Artist

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (2009). “Iola Leroy (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses.

  Susan Howe

  Loss, Erosion, Everyday

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• The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stars, Destiny, Men

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• There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

  Martin Freeman

  Disappointment, Familiar, Subjects

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• I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.”

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Expectations, Guy

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• The actress (Heidi Swedberg) is this wonderful girl, and ... I love her! i couldn't figure out how to play off of her. Her instincts for doing a scene - where the comedy was - and mine were always misfiring.

  Jason Alexander

  Love, Girl, Play

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• First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

  Peter Baynham

  Writing, Want, Firsts

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• I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.

  Dane Cook

  Taken, Thinking, Games

  "Dane Cook Goes for Laughs in Good Luck Chuck". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 13, 2007.

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• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  Sam Kinison

  Gay, Space, Community

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• I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

  Brian Regan

  Honesty, People, Laughing

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• I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Rowan Atkinson JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the obstacles that are in the way for that to happen.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Two, People, Together

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