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"I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes."
"Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men."
"By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer."
"Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect."
"A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head."
"I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are."
"I'm a big comedy nerd, so I'm always looking for the chance to be funny."
"My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point."
"I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because I'm just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot - but I broke on Sordid Lives, and I broke on The Office. Those are the only two times in my life."
"I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do."
"'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style."
"I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen."
"In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself."
"You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out."
"I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like."
"After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism."
"Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners."
"Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly."
"There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor."
"I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L.A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived." So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out." Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me."
