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I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.
Jo Brand
Myself
Good
Comedy
Down
Think
East
Kind
About
Simon
He
Along
Like
Himself
Because
Go
Continuum
Version
Very
Actor
Play
Plays
Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.
Jo Brand
Madness
Comedy
Bad
Bad Thing
Altogether
Thing
Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.
Jo Brand
You
Comedy
Become
Everyone
Bit
Never
Global
Always
Go
Been
Anti-American
Did
Unfortunately
Star
Thinks
I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.
Jo Brand
Health
Food
Fruit
Vegetables
Comedy
Pay
Bit
Eat
Admit
More
Stuff
Like
Salad
Than
Might
Chips
Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.
Jo Koy
Funny
You
Comedy
Language
Everybody
Unspoken
Know
Understands
Just
Comedy is not the first choice in Vegas for entertainment.
Jo Koy
Entertainment
Comedy
First
Vegas
Choice
With Comedy Central, they produced it and did everything - I just had to walk up there and tell the jokes - whereas with Netflix, I was heavily, creatively involved, from the logo to the lighting of the room to selecting the venue to selling the tickets and promoting it.
Jo Koy
Jokes
Comedy
Walk
Everything
Tell
Promoting
Netflix
Selecting
Had
Lighting
Tickets
Involved
Comedy Central
Venue
Up
Selling
Did
Just
Whereas
Central
Room
Produced
Creatively
Something about Floridians, man - they are good to me. I'm glad my comedy translates to them.
Jo Koy
Good
Me
Man
Comedy
About
Something
Glad
Them
My dad's my biggest fan. When I went to college, my dad came into my life in full-on dad mode. I was doing comedy, and he was so excited for my comedy, whereas my mom wasn't. So we bonded through comedy.
Jo Koy
Life
Mom
Comedy
College
My Life
Through
He
Excited
Doing
Came
Mode
Whereas
Fan
Biggest
Full-On
Dad
Bonded
I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.
Joan Rivers
Funny
Today
Saying
Me
You
People
Doctor
Wonderful
Comedy
Mother
Father
Made
Think
Laugh
He
Come
Know
She
Always
Still
Truly
Up
Very
Die
Died
Being
Being Funny
Your
Helped
Dad
Her
I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.
Joan Rivers
Man
Comedy
Rich
Could
Had
Support
Beyond
Very
Who
Her
Secluded
Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.
Joan Rivers
Funny
You
Learning
Comedy
Young
Small
Learn
Audiences
Rooms
I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
Joaquin Phoenix
Death
Day
Every Day
Comedy
Satisfied
Every
Bored
Feel
Doing
Being
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Set
If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
Joe Carnahan
Me
Women
Comedy
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Everest
Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.
Joe Flaherty
Comedy
Big
Before
Late
Seemed
Through
Hot
Real
Replace
Very
Improv
Which
Stand-Up Comedy
There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.
Joe Flaherty
You
Together
Youth
Comedy
Older
Silliness
About
Something
Foolishness
Go
Get
Maybe
Just
Just Something
Younger
Away
You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.
Joe Klein
News
You
Comedy
Jon
Jon Stewart
Since
Get
Your
Show
To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
Joe Rogan
Great
Me
People
Comedy
Think
Other
Worry
About
Occupation
Because
Much
Really
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
Joe Rogan
Art
Comedy
Other
Varied
Generic
Like
Content
Art Form
Very
Any
Form
Title
Really
Specialized
But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.
Joe Rogan
Comedy
Open
Chick
Them
Hard
We shot 'CBGB' in Savannah, and then I took another project there afterwards called 'Killing Winston Jones.' It's a dark comedy with Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Jon Heder, Danny Masterson and Aly Michalka. It's a great cast and a beautiful film.
Joel David Moore
Beautiful
Great
Dark
Comedy
Took
Project
Danny
Cast
Winston
Jon
Another
Afterwards
Richard
Then
Shot
Film
Savannah
The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.
Joel McHale
Comedy
Out
Movement
Serious
I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.
Joelle Carter
Dark
Darkness
Comedy
Meets
Bit
Brown
Glenn
Glenn Close
Like
Ball
Mixture
Lot
Close
Little
Little Bit
Lucille
Lucille Ball
Keep
Play
Murphy
Damages
If I see an audition for a show or a movie, I'll send a tape in. I attack it. The whole time, I'm booking comedy, so no matter what, I always got that coming in. I'm always working on my craft.
Joey Diaz
Time
Comedy
Matter
Booking
See
Attack
Always
Got
Audition
Coming
Tape
Send
Craft
Movie
Working
Show
Whole
I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that is totally different from 'The Blues Brothers.' I'm a comic actor, but I'm an actor, too.
John Belushi
Comedy
Thought
Too
Dan
Brothers
Totally
Could
Nobody
Comic
Blues
Blues Brothers
Different
Want
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Then
Actor
Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.
John C. Reilly
You
Comedy
Will
Joke
Will Ferrell
Laugh
About
Shame
Uncomfortable
Part
Learned
Loosen
Makes
Audience
Doing
Up
Commit
Just
Want
Ashamed
Them
Body
Act
Your
Your Body
Fully
Thing
Here
Shy
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