Comedy Quotes - Page 13

• I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.

  David Rees

  Comedian, Hobbies, Littles

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. 1984.

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• I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.

  Justin Timberlake

  Thinking, Comedian, Bitter

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Talking, People

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• People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Guy, Scripts

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.

  Thomas Lennon

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.

  Pauly Shore

  Real, Inspire, Comedian

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Powerful, Hands, Skills

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.

  Emo Philips

  Night, Years, Comedian

  "Emo Philips is still ... Emo". Interview with Steve Johnson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 20, 2012.

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• The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Spirit, Comic

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Moments, Annihilation

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Laughter, Winter, Long Ago

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• 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.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Stars, Aids, Kool Aid

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• I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Laughing, Serious

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• The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Art, Opinion, Form

  "Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass on Stand-Up Comedy and the Movies". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. August 23, 2012.

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• People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

  Jennifer Aniston

  People, Looks, Easy

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• I think comedy Ive learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

  Jamie Lynn Sigler

  Thinking, Failing, Ive Learned

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• I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

  Kathy Griffin

  Special, Biographies, Spoof

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• To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

  Kathy Griffin

  Jobs, Giving Up, Staggering

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• I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

  Yvonne De Carlo

  Timing, Found, Ability

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

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• I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

  Ed Helms

  Childhood

  "Helms Deep". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 5, 2006.

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

  Craig Kilborn

  Dark, Dark Places

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• Most of the people I know in comedy are not weird or messed up.

  Kristen Schaal

  People, Messed Up, Knows

  "The Hot Seat: Daily Show contributor Kristen Schaal". Interview with Sarah Theeboom, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.

  Laurie Holden

  Crush, Silly, Fighting

  "Laurie Holden Exclusive Interview THE WALKING DEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 1, 2010.

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• My mom, she's like Why can't you just do a nice romantic comedy like Jennifer Love Hewitt? And I'm like: Mom, look at me. They just don't put me in those movies.

  Norman Reedus

  Mom, Nice, Looks

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