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Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia. Richard Corliss
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Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress - and to inspire. That's a message that can outlive any Oscar season. Richard Corliss
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I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them. Richard Linklater
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What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do. Richard McCabe
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I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me. Richard Russo
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Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much. Richard Simmons
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I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes. Ricky Gervais
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I've avoided doing a network comedy, because I wouldn't get my own way. Even though it would get more viewers, it wouldn't be mine. Ricky Gervais
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I am myself sometimes, and I do state my opinions, but not in a comedy routine and not in my character. There always has to be some sort of layer to it. Ricky Gervais
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I find comedy easy, and I find drama exciting and tantalising. Ricky Gervais
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I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic. Ricky Jay
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All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it. Ricky Van Veen
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The word 'comedy' implies slapstick. Ridley Scott
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As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands. Rik Mayall
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I'm a big fan of comedy such as Cendric the Entertainer. Rikishi
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I'm known as a dramatic actor. But because I don't do a lot of comedy, I love watching it because I can really immerse myself in it and not think. Riley Smith
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I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. Rita Rudner
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I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap. Riz Ahmed
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I get all of my comedy from CNN. Rob Corddry
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The world's so big, it's hard to pick one best friend. I like everyone in Venezuela, but in L.A., I hang out mostly with my comedy friends. Guys like Paul Scheer, Rob Riggle, Owen Burke, Ed Helms, Seth Morris - we all kind of came up together doing comedy in New York. Rob Huebel
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Comedy people like other comedy people. People hang out and are friends and do shows together, and when you get something going like a TV show or a movie, you want your friends to be in it and make it funnier. That's just the way it should be. Rob Huebel
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A comedy scene can't really have two weirdoes in it. It doesn't make any sense that way, so you need someone to ground it and call out what's unusual about this person and this scene. Early on, I got pretty good at doing that, and I felt pretty comfortable doing that. Rob Huebel
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My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to be able to play drama, to be able to play comedy, to be able to play leading men, and to be able to play character roles. I have no other aspirations in this regard. Rob Lowe
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In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously. Rob Lowe
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I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world. Rob McElhenney
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Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have. Rob McElhenney
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