"I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify."
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"Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that."
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"To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be."
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"Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously."
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"Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do."
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"Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve."
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"Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd."
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"I will always love to perform standup comedy."
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"Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth."
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"... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at."
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"With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook."
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"Comedy is not pretty."
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"In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs."
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"Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty."
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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."
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"Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?"
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"When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures."
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"I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia."
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"There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject."
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"If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him."
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