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Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means.
The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.
There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.
Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.
Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.
A great horror film works as a communal experience more than almost anything else, except for maybe a comedy. That's something that I've experienced, just taking this movie around and watching it with audiences.
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.
My CD, my first release, was at the Comedy Works in Denver, one of the best clubs in the country.
I worked for the Comedy Store as an employee trying to become a paid regular. I had this dream of achieving a half hour special on TV.
My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought they must mean a sunny, affable girl-next-door, but instead I was confronted with Larry David! Crabby, moody, perversely neurotic Larry David. And the thing is, my friends were right.
My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.
I love comedy, and I always wanted to go that way, but I felt so passionate about drama.
My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.
I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.
Comedy is the toughest. If it goes little bit here and there, and your partner doesn't cover up for you, then everything can go wrong.
Ellen DeGeneres is great. She has this natural style, and she makes comedy look so easy.
Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.
I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.
I always had a tremendous amount of rage about the business, and I thought turning that into comedy was healthy.
Why did God have to make Mo'Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo'Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo'Nique comedy specials.
The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don't enjoy the echo. I'm no sell out. Literally.
In the '90s, comedy was at a very low point, but these days, you've got people like Hannibal Burress, Ron Funches, Maria Bamford - people who can play any club, anywhere.
From 1987 to 1992, I was on the road for 40 weeks a year playing comedy clubs, and that was during the 'comedy boom.'
The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.
I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.
It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.
I get frustrated by the fact that comics go on stage with some kind of agenda beyond comedy - I'm not sure it should be about that.
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
One of the great upsides about comedy is that you're dealing with really lovely, fun material.
When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.
I was trying to be a clinical psychologist for years. But I kept getting stuck in comedy.
I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'
I love working in television and in comedy, so whenever there's an opportunity to work on a TV sitcom, I'm like, 'Yes please!'
Ideally, I'd love to do a comedy just because, work-wise, it'd be a lot of fun.
I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.
I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it's the only way most do it.
I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.
It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.
I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.
I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.
I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.
Some people do specials, like, when they've only been doing comedy for three years or something. Which is fine! But I'm kind of old fashioned, and I knew that I didn't want to do one too early.
I have this fantasy of relaxing and doing nothing. But I'm obviously very passionate about stand-up comedy. I mean, I keep doing it. So I must be really into it.
Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.
On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.
Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry.
A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.
'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.
My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.
When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.
I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians.
I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.
I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.
I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.'
I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.
I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.
I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.
People want their actors to do comedy, too. They don't want any comedians next to the actor. They want one solo hero and want to see everything in him.
The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I've played overshadow the comedic stints that I've had. 'Darjeeling Limited' is a comedy; The 'Brothers Bloom' is a comedy.
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