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I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.
I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.
Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.
Too often, these comedy guys now only care about getting on and then getting off and getting rich.
I've done two Shakespeare tragedies, so I'd desperately like to do comedy. It would be nice not to die.
I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.
I went to NYU drama school, so I was a very serious actress. I used to do monologues with a Southern accent, and I was really into drama and drama school. And then, in my last year of drama school, I did a comedy show, and the show became a big hit on campus.
Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.
If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.
I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.
I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact that I didn't want to do anything science-related, and I wanted to write comedy plays and act little bit - I mean, I became deeply interesting in college because of how rare that was.
People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.
I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Before comedy, I worked at a tech company, and before that, I worked on Wall Street. And, honestly, I've never really been sexually harassed.
I was one of the people that always got chosen last, and I think I bulked up my comedy bone to make up for my lack of friends.
I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can't act my way out of a paper bag and stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it appears.
I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.
Because I do mostly comedy, I'm usually working with friends, and it's usually a ball.
In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.
In all my content I don't really swear or use profanity, because I believe comedy can just be pure.
I'm very observational in my comedy and what I create with the characters that I'm blessed to play. I don't believe comedy needs to be offensive, and I don't believe it needs to be a mockery of anything.
I was like the funny guy in sixth form. When we used to do showcases, I'd host them, and I would do, like, little comedy segments.
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
I don't know how you can do comedy once every two weeks. Ever since I started, if I'm off for three days, I got to learn how to do comedy again.
I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.
There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama?
I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'
I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.
Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.
I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
It's such a smart decision for comedy to not try to be relevant or contemporary.
I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.
Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.
I went to drama school and, after that, went to Paris to train at a place called Ecole Philippe Gaulier. When I came home, I realised I'd have to have a serious stab at it. I didn't have an agent and didn't have the traditional drama school showcase, so I started a comedy group with a couple of friends.
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.
Comedy is one of my favorites, but I also want to get into drama and sci-fi.
Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.
Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.
Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.
But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.
Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.
In low comedy, a character gets hit in the head, and you don't really believe it. In farce, he's hit in the head, but he must be hit in the head. The character requires it.
While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.
The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.
A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.
A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.
I'm not the comedy police, but you watch a movie, and everyone's laughing, and then you shake it out, and you realize, 'There's no joke there!'
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
I'm a very funny person that doesn't get the chance to do a lot of comedy, and the same thing with my accents.
Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.
Of course, all my films are high on comedy, but I ensure there's something for the audience to take back home.
I really geek out with horror and like to delve into the subgenres, whether it's comedy or slasher or sci-fi.
I love every single genre from documentaries, horror, comedy, drama, '80s, classic, I have it all.
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