Comedy Quotes - Page 30

• I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L.A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived." So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out." Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Mean, Legendary, Program

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• You know, because you outline a movie, it kinda comes at the same time. I mean, there are days when you are just concentrating on 'ok, let's worry about just comedy today,' and there are days when you're like 'you know what, we gotta just beef up the story.'. But, it's not like process wise it's that technically separate. One informs the other, so they kinda all happen together ideally.

  Todd Phillips

  Wise, Mean, Worry

  "School for Scoundrels' Director Todd Phillips Interview". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. September 27, 2006.

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• I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the thing. It's like Elizabethan theater. You play the scene, and then you turn - the audience is part of it.

  Christopher Walken

  Play, Musical, Actors

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it's not so much trying to be funny, it's trying to be real in a messed up context. That's comedy to me.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Stupid, People

  "Will Ferrell: 'I Am Kind Of Boring To Me'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Sense Of Humor, Enough

  "AWFJ Women On Film – Charlize Theron Talks 'Burning Plain'". Interview with Jen Yamato, awfj.org. September 24, 2009.

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• Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

  Joan Rivers

  Beats, Should, Rough

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I wrote, I think, half a dozen films that were completely out of genre. Comedies, love stories, even one serious film about Vietnam, and we couldn't get backing for any of it. And we both sort of drifted from making, at that time, serious money on Last House to going through it all in the course of almost three years and only getting offers to do something scary again.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Years, Scary

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Want, Dice

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.

  Jason Segel

  Two, Together, Looks

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Stand-up is an art but since it's humor and it's funny - a lot of guys that don't think it's art are probably coming from the angle that they don't want to take it so seriously. I've always looked at it as an art but I don't look at it as a pretentious art. I understand it has to be taken lightly because it is just comedy in the end, but the good stand-up comics are someone with something to say.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Art, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.comedymoontower.com

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• When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Years, Want, Seven

  Source: www.comedymoontower.com

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• I've been doing Nixon pretty much my whole professional life. I was in this comedy group called the Credibility Gap in Los Angeles when he was president. I was doing Nixon on the radio, and when we did live shows I physicalized him - if that's a word - for the first time. And then I did a Nixon sketch on a very short-lived NBC show called Sunday Best.

  Harry Shearer

  Sunday, Nbc, President

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.

  Harry Shearer

  Years, Giving, Able

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.

  John Waters

  Wine, Holiday, My Favorite

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• Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. You would never go to a club just to see "Live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. But when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Funny Things, Ideas

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• I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.

  Joe Rogan

  Mind, Clubs, Kind

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• I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.

  Woody Allen

  Monopoly, Bigs, Believer

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• I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Play, Long

  "Steve Martin: The Powells.com Interview". Interview with Jill Owens, www.powells.com. November 29, 2010.

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• With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

  Steve Martin

  Years, Ideas, Going To Work

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• I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

  Steve Martin

  Kids, Taught, Used

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• I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Challenges, Twenties

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• I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

  Steve Martin

  School, People, Laughing

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• I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

  Steve Martin

  Tv Shows, People, Lines

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• For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.

  Demetri Martin

  Confused, Moving, People

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten comics doing ten different things. That's not what happens when you go to hear music. There isn't a classical performance followed by a hoedown followed by rap.

  Jon Stewart

  Rap, Might, Evening

  Source: www.oprah.com

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