"Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy."
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"I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy."
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"British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death."
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"Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it."
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"I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy."
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"I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much."
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"It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world."
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"A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt."
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"It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life."
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"I feel like women in comedy have staked out space for themselves and circled the wagons in this inspiring way to say that it's absolutely unacceptable and ludicrous to suggest that women aren't funny anymore in 2016. It just makes you look like a dinosaur."
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"As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy."
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"The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me."
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"The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation."
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"I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that."
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"Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men."
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"It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow."
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"I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work."
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"Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material."
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"I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing."
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"I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene."
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