Comedy Quotes - Page 31

• I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.”

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Expectations, Guy

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those.

  Emma Stone

  Stupid, Book, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Responsibility, Voice, World

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm really happy that I've been able to make people laugh and distract them from their day to day bullshit at a comedy show or because they enjoyed one of my CDs or TV specials, but I don't know how many people have actually had life changing thoughts because of it.

  Joe Rogan

  Life Changing, Cds, Laughing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The beautiful thing about podcasting is it's just talking. It can be funny, or it can be terrifying. It can be sweet. It can be obnoxious. It almost has no definitive form. In that sense it's one of the best ways to explore an idea, and certainly much less limiting than trying to express the same idea in stand up comedy. For some ideas stand up is best, but it's really, really nice to have podcasts as well.

  Joe Rogan

  Beautiful, Sweet, Nice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.

  Bo Burnham

  Dark, Light, Laughing

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• The strength of comedy is I don't have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.

  Bo Burnham

  Ideas, People, Answers

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• If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

  Bo Burnham

  People, Facts, Surprise

  Source: www.craveonline.com

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• I'm very interested in trying to make comedy shows that are a bit bigger, more theatrical, more of a "show." Some people might say I'm trying too hard, but that's a compliment to me. I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

  Bo Burnham

  People, Trying, Littles

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I know it's the comedian's instinct to say, "Do it, man, nothing's off-limits! It's cool, bro!" I don't know if that's the answer for me. "Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?" I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.

  Bo Burnham

  Fall, Miscarriage, Men

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.

  Bo Burnham

  Positivity, People, Bully

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mistake, Thinking, Different

  "Leonardo Dicaprio: 'I Am A Lot Calmer Now'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 9, 2011.

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• When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Drama, Chaplin, Endure

  Source: moviehole.net

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• As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

  John Hodgman

  Real, Benefits, Entrances

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to do a whole comedy show about swimming in the loathsomely cold waters of Maine.

  John Hodgman

  Children, Swimming, Water

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I don't care if I tell that story and John Roderick gets up afterward and yells, 'I hope you enjoyed the white privilege, mortality comedy of John Hodgman!' That's me!" I'm going to play a sad Handsome Family song at the end and I guarantee you everyone is going to love it because, sometimes, you need a grown man or woman to tell you what you like.

  John Hodgman

  Song, Men, Play

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the pretentious ones, who believe that acting is harder than standup comedy. I definitely don't think it is. I also think making a comedy is substantially harder than making a drama.

  Jim Jefferies

  Drama, Believe, Thinking

  Source: tvmegasite.net

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• In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.

  Jim Jefferies

  Book, People, Comedian

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

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• I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you go from being attractive to where they [directors] decided you're out... I feel like with stand-up comedy, it doesn't matter if I've gotten fatter.

  Jim Jefferies

  Acting, Age, Directors

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

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• Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.

  Aimee Garcia

  Drama, Fall, Writing

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• In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.

  Emo Philips

  College, Play, Black

  Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

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• What I'm doing when I'm doing my speaking engagements is that I'm delivering serious material with humor. So, instead of delivering humor without a particular point other than to entertain people, I'm delivering comedy in a serious way.

  Andy Andrews

  People, Engagement, Way

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

  Doc Brown

  Trying, Firsts, Consciousness

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• I try not to be influenced when it comes to being creative, just in order to sustain my own voice and character. However, I do have many inspirations from the worlds of literature, music, comedy and film.

  Doc Brown

  Inspiration, Character, Order

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper."

  Doc Brown

  Rapper, Firsts, Hello

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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