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Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
Ellen DeGeneres
Funny
Bullying
You
People
Be Kind
Comedy
Humor
Somebody
Example
Feelings
Else
Way
Laugh
Kind
Find
Hurting
Major
Most
Make
Without
Getting
Expense
Just
Want
Form
Based
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
Funny
Comedy
Funny Way
Way
Simply
Being
Serious
I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.
Justin Timberlake
Life
Music
Time
You
Humble
Comedy
Be Humble
My Life
Tough
Whatever
Every
Channel
Way
Able
Someone
Through
Tough Time
Environment
Blessings
Because
Always
Very
Get
Just
Taught
Happening
Whether
Your
Help
Things
Raised
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.
Robin Williams
Me
You
Anger
Yourself
Comedy
Hypocrisy
Starts
Side
Everywhere
Out
Kind
Darker
See
Outraged
Cruel
Absurd
Because
Within
Exists
Maybe
Where
Then
Sculpt
Explosion
Even
Deeper
Hardest
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks
Good
You
People
Comedy
Down
Mussolini
No Chance
Because
Does
Get
Just
Rhetoric
Anywhere
Stand
Bring
Chance
Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.
Hiam Abbass
Life
Daily
You
Soul
Suffering
People
Comedy
Pressure
Laughter
Face
Medicine
Way
Out
Could
Almost
Like
Really
Your
Daily Life
Letting
The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
Bill Hicks
Best
Me
You
People
Light
Comedy
Corners
Minds
Laugh
Laughed
Kind
Take
Never
Also
Make
Them
Exposing
Things
Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
Cameron Boyce
Funny
Great
Man
Respect
People
Comedy
Style
Stage
Relate
Incredible
Hart
Laugh
Tell
Tells
He
Instincts
Hour
Like
Make
Real
Dude
His
Short
Just
Stories
Really
Kevin
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.
Jonah Hill
Good
Great
Me
You
Change
People
World
Better
Comedy
Think
Exactly
Exactly What
Give
Longer
Underdog
Always
Shock
Bunch
Shocked
Than
Expectations
Unexpected
Done
Just
Anymore
Anything
Them
Film
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Will Durst
Hope
Anxiety
Fear
Comedy
Defiance
Laughter
Face
Back
Contempt
Inhale
Creep
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
Adam Savage
Beautiful
History
Most Beautiful
Comedy
Birth
State
Giant
Eastern
Some
New
Most
Erie
Canal
American
York
New York
New York State
Much
Landscape
Stand-Up Comedy
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Life
Together
Comedy
Life Is A
Kind
Mixing
Tragedy
Going
Things
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Chuck Jones
People
Comedy
Unusual
Real
Real People
Situations
Farce
Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.
Dave Coulier
Great
Experience
Comedy
Think
Open
Shared
Demographic
Wide
You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
Eddie Murphy
Music
You
Comedy
Singing
Live
Back
Stuff
Like
Know
Look
Always
Go
Bunch
Donkey
Even
Shrek
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.
George Takei
Life
Funny
Good
You
Eyes
Sense Of Humor
Comedy
Humor
Life Is A
Sense
Find
See
Someone
Good Sense
Through
Did
Human
Which
Grandmother
Things
I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
Jack Lemmon
Comedy
Drama
Able
Like
Been
Fortunate
Hard
Compare
Apples
Pears
Playing
Career
Two
We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.
Jeff Foxworthy
God
Sense Of Humor
Grace
Comedy
Humor
Sense
Way
Hey
Kind
Would
Stay
About
Faced
Like
Mess
None
Always
Got
Up
Going
Just
Screwed
Screwed-Up
Place
Us
Shot
Act
Things
Here
Christians
Need
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
Jerry Seinfeld
You
People
Comedy
Strangers
Laugh
Like
Talk
Make
Because
Friends
Get
So Much Fun
Much
Paid
Your
Fun
Four
Levels
I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.
Jo Brand
You
People
Comedy
Bitterness
Feeling
Think
Perfectly
Know
Make
Acceptable
Years
Comment
Accumulate
Your
Appearance
Even
Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
Kate McKinnon
Funny
Saying
Comedy
Tool
Way
Out
Someone
Something
Pointing
Putting
Arm
Reaching
Around
Togetherness
Your
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce
Art
You
Man
Comedy
Try
Laughter
Three
Laughs
Only
Take
Hour
Fake
Art Form
Form
Away
Honest
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
Mark Haddon
Darkness
Comedy
Think
Humour
Though
High
Rapidly
Phrase
Unbearable
Trivial
Perfect
Terms
Without
Becomes
Bedfellows
Seriousness
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks
Life
You
Comedy
Abound
Look
Around
Just
Literally
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
Norm MacDonald
Funny
You
Comedy
Somebody
Laugh
Make
Surprises
Intending
You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.
Steve Harvey
God
You
Class
Gift
Comedy
Car
Singing
Become
Flying
Born
Give
Piano
Piano Lessons
Take
Driving
Almost
Almost Anything
Singing Lessons
Anything
Race
Race Car
Acting
Skydiving
Lessons
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