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In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.
Bobby Farrelly
Funny
Good
Feedback
Comedy
Though
Find
About
Audience
Get
I started doing comedy when I was a teenager with Tom Kenny, who is the voice of SpongeBob. I don't want to name drop, but, I've known him since I was 6.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Comedy
Drop
Teenager
Voice
Since
Name
Him
Known
Doing
Want
Who
Tom
Kenny
Started
I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Comedy
Out
Became
Making
Then
Fun
Thing
Started
I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Comedy
Everybody
Where
Aversion
Speaks
I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and clubs for over 30 years. That's a long time.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Time
Comedy
Long
Long Time
Over
Doing
Been
Years
Clubs
Stand-Up Comedy
Letterman
Started
I'm always amazed that people are interested in comedy.
Bobcat Goldthwait
People
Comedy
Always
Amazed
Interested
People go, 'Oh, Trump must be good for comedy,' and I go, 'Ehhh.'
Bobcat Goldthwait
Good
People
Comedy
Must
Go
Trump
Oh
When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.
Bonnie Hunt
Mom
Family
You
Personality
Comedy
Big
Big Family
Get
Your
Part of my reason for 'Session 9' was to break out, to destroy the illusion of me as 'Mr. Romantic Comedy Guy.'
Brad Anderson
Me
Comedy
Illusion
Destroy
Out
Guy
Part
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Break
Reason
Session
I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.
Brad Garrett
You
Satire
Comedy
Timing
Think
Born
Gene
Pathos
Teach
For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.
Bradley Cooper
Work
Comedy
Magic
Happen
I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.
Bradley Cooper
Comedy
Ending
Never
Had
Heard
Movie
I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.
Bradley Cooper
Me
Comedy
Lover
Definitely
Only
Through
Comedies
How
Am
How Much
Doing
Been
Huge
Influence
Realised
Much
Many
I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.
Bradley Walsh
Time
Home
Comedy
Same Thing
Bits
Thrilled
Same
Want
Thing
British
It's a young man's game - standup comedy.
Bradley Walsh
Game
Man
Comedy
Young
Standup
I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.
Brandon T. Jackson
Comedy
Will
Job
Never
Always
Doing
Up
Hit
Desk
I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
Brendan Coyle
Myself
Comedy
Drama
See
Performer
Greek
Modern
You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.
Brendan Gleeson
You
Comedy
Think
Guard
Channel
Framework
Outside
Had
Within
Comic
Lot
Going
Which
Satisfying
In comedy, when you bomb, especially at The Comedy Store in front of a sold-out house? I think it would have been way worse if I bombed there than losing a UFC fight.
Brendan Schaub
You
Fight
Comedy
Losing
Think
Sold-Out
Way
Worse
Would
House
Been
Than
Front
Store
Bomb
Bombed
When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.
Bresha Webb
Love
Comedy
Girl
Other
Side
Out
Loud
Played
The 'Muppets' were a very big part of my childhood, and 'Flight of the Conchords' definitely has elements of the 'Muppets' in it, specifically the way we mixed music and comedy.
Bret McKenzie
Music
Comedy
Big
Way
Definitely
Part
Were
Mixed
Very
Big Part
Childhood
Flight
Elements
Specifically
Muppet
At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.
Brett Gelman
Day
Comedy
End Of The Day
Other
Characters
Like
Audience
End
Acting
Stand-Up Comedy
I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
Brett Gelman
Comedy
Always
Been
Actor
Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has to come from the character.
Brett Gelman
Character
You
Comedy
Too
Focused
Laugh
About
Come
Get
Suffers
One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
Brett Gelman
You
Comedy
Language
Important
One Of The Things
Deal
How
Very
Taught
Things
I think some people watch 'Raging Bull,' or they watch 'The Piano Teacher,' and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.
Brett Gelman
Teacher
People
Sometimes
Comedy
Care
Some People
Think
Dramatic
Able
Some
More
Piano
Take
Take Care
Taking
Context
Bull
Providing
Escape
Maybe
Just
Where
Want
Process
Which
Them
Really
Raging
Watch
Necessary
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