"There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with."
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"Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy."
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"In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it."
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"I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy."
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"I feel like a lot of comedies out are just the same consistent joke."
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"I'd like to do a romantic comedy."
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"It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially the comedian, it gives me you know different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me."
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"It's a lot of work to put a brand-new monologue and a brand-new show on the air and find comedy every single day. It's challenging and it's the hardest thing I have ever done, but it's the best-suited thing for me. The more relaxed I get and the more confident I feel, the more I get to play and be myself..."
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"I'm the Forrest Gump of comedy."
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"There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies."
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"To me, comedy is a game."
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"I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old."
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"The reason you often get in comedy is because you're not getting laid."
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"I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can."
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"When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper.""
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"Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20."
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"You exaggerate your own reactions."
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"I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets."
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"Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year."
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"I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages."
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