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It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.
Mike Nichols
Work
You
Comedy
Reward
Benny
Spirit
Martin
Almost
Simultaneous
Like
Steve
Steve Martin
Because
Saint
Doing
Very
Jack
Jack Benny
Where
Little
Avoid
Actual
I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.
Mila Kunis
Love
You
People
Comedy
Drama
Laugh
Characters
Entertain
Entertain People
Super
Morbid
Cry
Sound
Doing
Get
Stoked
Different
Whether
Different Characters
Might
Fun
Fun Things
Things
Playing
Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.
Milana Vayntrub
Music
Experience
Natural
Comedy
Music Video
Directing
Like
Felt
Very
Commercial
Sketch
Transition
Video
Comedy came early. I knew when I was a kid that I was silly, and I knew that I liked people who were funny, but I don't think I knew I was funny. I didn't really think about it.
Milana Vayntrub
Funny
People
Comedy
Think
Kid
Silly
About
Knew
Liked
Came
Were
Really
Who
Early
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.
Mindy Kaling
Saying
You
Comedy
Stupidity
Past
Favorite
Embarrassed
Has-Been
Kind
Degraded
Admission
Write
Almost
Feel
Like
Comedies
Genre
Because
Revealing
Been
Years
Essentially
Movie
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Romantic Comedy
In The Past
Really
Mild
Twenty
I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.
Mindy Kaling
Myself
Woman
Women
People
Comedy
Think
Thinking
Would
Indian
Table
About
Write
Writers
Feel
Talented
Talented People
Issues
Were
Maternity
Lot
Up
Forget
Grew
Used
Even
Bringing
Need
People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.
Mindy Kaling
Funny
People
Comedy
Out
Charities
About
Writers
Put
Ideas
Well
Celebrity
Listen
Want
Little
Tweeting
Shows
Why
I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.
Mindy Kaling
Doctor
Comedy
Engineer
Parents
Live
Late
Those
Kids
Would
Stay
Nerd
Silent
Like
Hall
Always
Sneak
Up
Very
Going
Just
Realized
Downstairs
Saturday
Saturday Night
Things
Saturday Night Live
Watch
Early
Night
Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.
Mindy Kaling
Me
Feedback
Comedy
Amazing
Matter
Try
Every
Twitter
Other
Medium
Way
Immediately
Out
Writer
Writers
Idea
Ideas
Most
Most Amazing
Comic
How
Bully
Get
Getting
Want
Hard
Show
I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television.
Miranda Hart
Saying
Writing
Comedy
Pressure
National
Homework
Television
Equivalent
Surgery
Doing
Brain
Brain Surgery
End
Up
National Television
Going
Certain
I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques. For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone. I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way nearly 25 stone.
Miranda Hart
Hope
Saying
You
Comedy
Goddess
Way
Ways
Record
About
Only
She
Hear
Person
Stone
Jacques
Any
Quite
Confident
Being
Much
Many
Compared
Nearly
Right
If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.
Mircea Monroe
Myself
Comedy
Patient
Back
Ways
Would
Mental
Something
Ideally
Go
Continue
Where
Different
Then
Express
Different Ways
I don't like 'comedy,' I like 'life,' which has everything in it.
Miriam Margolyes
Life
Comedy
Everything
Like
Which
Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.
Mo Rocca
People
Comedy
Honestly
Interview
Interviews
Out
Lied
About
Never
Comedy Central
Because
Pass
Came
Were
Subjects
Get
Just
Wanted
Stories
Central
Who
Aware
I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.
Moira Kelly
Me
Comedy
Drop
Timing
Cry
Pin
Hard
I went to NYU drama school, so I was a very serious actress. I used to do monologues with a Southern accent, and I was really into drama and drama school. And then, in my last year of drama school, I did a comedy show, and the show became a big hit on campus.
Molly Shannon
School
Comedy
Big
Year
Drama
Drama School
Accent
Became
Big Hit
Very
Campus
Hit
Southern
Southern Accent
Did
Then
Really
Used
Show
Serious
Actress
NYU
Last
Monologues
Last Year
I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.
Moon Bloodgood
Science
Comedy
Relaxing
Would
Find
Horror
Horror Film
Rather
Like
Know
Science Fiction
Than
Just
Fiction
Them
Much
Film
Why
Watch
When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
Morris Chestnut
You
People
Comedy
Worry
About
Lead
Liking
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Really
When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.
Mort Sahl
People
Comedy
Neutrality
Kind
Silly
Write
Gets
Just
I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.
Nadia Giosia
Food
Family
Comedy
Beginning
Own
Television
My Own
Online
Come
Also
Around
Got
Years
Lot
Very
Did
Wanted
Which
Skit
Many
Thing
Started
Watching
I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!
Nadia Giosia
Work
Love
Beautiful
Music
Work Hard
Comedy
Gorgeous
Car
Shoes
Clothes
Addicted
Laughing
See
Pretty
Pretty Things
Obnoxious
Beautiful Clothes
Stuff
Comedy Shows
Rock
Rock Music
Go
Lot
Shiny
Loud
Just
Acquire
Really
Hard
Shows
Things
Playing
In comedy, it's so subjective; there is no right or wrong.
Nahnatchka Khan
Comedy
Wrong
Subjective
Right
Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, all of it. The network comedy really stayed away from that in the 1980s and 1990s.
Nahnatchka Khan
Comedy
Everything
Sexism
Stayed
About
Network
Lear
Talking
Norman
Race
Really
Away
'Seinfeld' was an amazing show. It's iconic and defined a whole generation of comedy writers - but by their own admission, that show was about nothing.
Nahnatchka Khan
Generation
Comedy
Amazing
Own
Nothing
Defined
Admission
About
Seinfeld
Writers
Iconic
Show
Whole
Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.
Nancy Gibbs
Hope
Government
Change
Trust
Comedy
Exhausted
Congress
Military
Sidelines
Hope And Change
Slogan
Obama
Seemed
Both
Federal
Federal Government
Supply
Failing
Because
Idle
Were
Short
Banks
Dysfunction
Public
Elected
Wars
Public Trust
Designed
Two
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
Naomi Watts
Me
You
People
Speak
Dark
Comedy
Miserable
Think
Those
Find
About
Come
Talk
Because
Person
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Movies
Scripts
Twisted
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