"When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon."
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"Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke."
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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."
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"Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening."
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"I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers."
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"Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me."
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"I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines."
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"I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy."
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"Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes."
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"I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it."
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"To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life."
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"When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in."
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"How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?"
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"I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts."
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"The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow."
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"Entourage [movie] really is established as a genre unto itself, much like the thriller or the horror movie or the comedy. And those things trend."
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"As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged."
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"I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious."
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"I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks."
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"With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast."
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