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• Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

  Jim Norton

  Art, Thinking, Museums

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• I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.

  Joelle Carter

  Dark, Play, Balls

  "Joelle Carter Talks JUSTIFIED and Desire to Shoot an Indie Feature in Florida". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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• 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.

  Max Hastings

  Play, Ridiculous, Divine

  "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

  Roger Ebert

  Hate, Stupid, Action

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.597, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

  Paul Merton

  Reading, Book, Listening

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• Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.

  Christine Lakin

  Laughter, Character, Kids

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• The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

  Ray Romano

  Drama, Balance, Feels

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• I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.

  Allen Covert

  Summer, Kids, House

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• I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

  Kirby Bliss Blanton

  Fun, Hard

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• I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

  John Cullum

  Musical, Singing, Agents

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• I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

  Miranda Hart

  Laughing, Joy, Comedian

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• It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

  Miranda Hart

  Buckets, Lines, One Line

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• I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

  Guillermo Diaz

  Laughter, School, Yearbook

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• My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.

  John Bradley-West

  Drama, School, Long

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• The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

  Ian Hislop

  Strong, Weak, Best Comedy

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• I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

  Nick Frost

  Men, Forgotten

  Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2009.

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• Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

  George Hickenlooper

  Beautiful, Play, Historical

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• My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Real, Drama, Writing

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• If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.

  W. H. Auden

  Queens, Character, Home

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• I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.

  Bill Burr

  Nyc, Tuesday, Crowds

  "Comedian Bill Burr, tamer of unruly audiences". Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, Im not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

  Doug Stanhope

  Taken, Racism, Might

  "Doug Stanhope on alcohol, politics and killing comedy Bootleggers's families". Interview with Joel Warner and Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. June 11, 2006.

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• I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

  Doug Stanhope

  Athletic, Musical, Attention

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• There’s a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

  Doug Stanhope

  Night, Years, Roots

  "Doug Stanhope on Alcohol, Politics and Killing Comedy Bootleggers’ Families". Interview with Joel Warner, Peter Mcgraw, www.wired.com. November 6, 2012.

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• The internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

  Doug Stanhope

  Comedian, Done, Clubs

  "Doug Stanhope on Alcohol, Politics and Killing Comedy Bootleggers’ Families". Interview with Joel Warner, Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if Im paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see whos funniest, with everyone treated equally.

  Doug Stanhope

  Believe, Want, Vote

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