"People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs."
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"My comedy is not mine. It's a gift. I'm not that smart."
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"Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything."
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"George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk."
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"Discussion in America means dissent."
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"Don't get it right, just get it written."
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"Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace of things."
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"For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business."
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"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."
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"Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also."
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"I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did."
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"I developed several comedy phone calls."
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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
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"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
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"Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing."
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"I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time."
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"I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important."
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"sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish."
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"Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma."
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"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal."
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