"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
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"I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go."
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"We're more effective than birth control pills."
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"On a practical level, I'm uncomfortable at comedy clubs because there are so many shitty dude comics who have made my life miserable. If I go to a comedy club and I look around, I don't know which of the dudes lining the wall told me that I was too fat to get raped. It makes me nauseous. But that was a couple years ago, and meanwhile, comedy has changed a lot."
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"Comedy can't be about continuous success."
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"I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing."
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"It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can ruin their best take. But sometimes it's very hard not to."
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"Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy."
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"Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult."
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"[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'"
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"It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse."
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"I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing I learned from Danny Simon."
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"Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once."
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"Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end'. Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me."
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"Comedy is actually very macho driven."
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"I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it."
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"I invented the cordless extension cord."
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"My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out."
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"The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing."
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"All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith."
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